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Floating Dockable Panes and Backstages

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Topic: Floating Dockable Panes and Backstages

Posted By: cpede
Subject: Floating Dockable Panes and Backstages
Date Posted: 03 September 2025 at 5:37am

I just noticed that when having a floating dockable pane it is displayed on top of backstages. This is probably not correct. It also shows the guides where to dock the floting pane when moved in the main frame.

Floating dockable windows should be hidden when backstages are displayed.

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Product: Xtreme ToolkitPro (24.0.0)
Platform: Windows 10 (x64)
Language: Visual Studio 2017 (C++)

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Posted By: dbrookes
Date Posted: 15 September 2025 at 4:19am

Agreed.

I manually handle hiding and showing floating toolbars as well as floating docking panes when the backstage view is popped up and closed.

For docking panes "side panel" panes are also required to be handled. Otherwise they will be displayed above the backstage after it is popped up due to the ribbon height change that occurs relaying out the main window and therefore "side panel" docking panes.

Unfortunately backstage views don't send `WM_XTP_INITCOMMANDSPOPUP` on popup, they only send `WM_XTP_UNINITCOMMANDSPOPUP` on hide. So overriding some stuff in `CXTPRibbonBackstageView` is required...