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With luck, someone can offer feedback or a “best practice” on this?
First, the existing application we are changing uses splitters on many views to separate work items. I have changed several of the more simple layouts to now use dockable windows instead of a split view. This is nicer and the user can do all the dockable features.
Now we have to decide what to do on a more complex MDI Frame
Imaging a view that has 3 sections - divided vertically on the page.
Sections 1+2 are on a tab view. Section 3 is constant and the "main" view. Currently we have a splitter between the constant view (3) and the tabbed view containing sections 1+2. All of the splitters are sizeable.
If it helps, think of the three sections like this:
Tree view + Property View + Graphical depiction
The Tree view and Property Views are on a Tab together.
When you have the first tab active, you see 1A+2A+3, when you change the tab, you see, 1B+2B+3. Hopefully, you can visualize the idea. (If I could send a snapshot, this might be easier to understand).
So from this you can understand that sections 1+2 are a pair.
Right now I started coding trying to replicate what we already have, to some degree, but am having a few problems.
We envision making the "Tabs" dockable. That way the user can keep them as Tabs or simply dock them side by side.
I've Created 2 docking panes and am trying to write new CView classes that will make a CSplitterWnd and create the 2 views for each of the docking (Tab) panes. If you have some suggestions in this area, that might be helpful. Perhaps I’ve missed some class that would already give me this ability.
BUT, I can see how it might be nice if within the Tab view, the 1 and 2 section windows were also dockable, so the user could stack the windows vertically, or horizontally.
But we don't feel we can make all 4 windows independent because we need the 1A, 1B to stay visible together and the 2A, and 2B to be visible together. I hope that makes sense. Do you think this can be done with docking panes and keep the “pair” of associated windows visible at the same time? Of would it be better to continue working on a split pane dockable window?
Also, I saw there was a CXTDockingPaneSplitterContainer but I’m having some problems defining it. Any examples that might use that class?
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