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Docked or not? What is the position?

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Topic: Docked or not? What is the position?

Posted By: chrisjohnson
Subject: Docked or not? What is the position?
Date Posted: 07 April 2005 at 3:34am

I have an MDI child window (CXTPFrameWndBase<CMDIChildWnd>) with a toolbar on it. This child window also hosts a splitter window (CXTSplitterWnd member created using CreateStatic in OnCreateClient). I want the toolbar to be able to be docked on any side of the MDI window. It is also possible that I will have multiple toolbars which could be docked (or floating) anywhere.

I have overridden the OnSize method for the child window, so that I can call "MoveWindow" on the splitter window member, so that it is resized properly. Unfortunately, I am having trouble determining the new window position because of the toolbars. (Note: In all of the demo applications (that I could see) that do something similar, there is only one toolbar, and it is assumed that it is docked at the top.)

GetClientRect returns a rect that includes the toolbars, so now I have to trim down that rect with toolbar rects (which also means deriving from CXTPCommandBar to access the private m_barPosition member).

Is there an easier way to do this? Am I doing something wrong?

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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 07 April 2005 at 1:16pm

See in MSDN RepositionBars function

nFlag must be CWnd::reposQuery

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: chrisjohnson
Date Posted: 07 April 2005 at 2:14pm

Thanks.

Actually as I was doing the work to use what you suggested, I noticed that I no longer need to call MoveWindow on the splitter... I don't know what changed, but everything works fine without that call now.

Chris