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CXTPDockingPaneManager Adding Later

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Topic: CXTPDockingPaneManager Adding Later

Posted By: danpetitt
Subject: CXTPDockingPaneManager Adding Later
Date Posted: 04 January 2007 at 7:18pm

I have a GUI (DevStudio like) and have docking panes in the application. I am saving the layout of the panes to an XML file.

My product is being used at the moment, but I want to add a new pane, if i do none of my users can view it unless they delete the settings.xml file.

How do I get my new pane to be added and still maintain the layout and settings of the rest of the app?

Basically in MainFrm I:

 CXTPDockingPane *pwndProject = m_paneManager.CreatePane( ID_PANE_PROJECT, CRect(0, 0, 300, 150), xtpPaneDockLeft );
 CXTPDockingPane *pwndEditedFiles = m_paneManager.CreatePane( ID_PANE_EDITED_FILES, CRect(0, 0, 200, 150), xtpPaneDockRight );
 GetDockingPaneManager()->AttachPane( pwndEditedFiles, pwndProject );

...
 
 CXTPPropExchangeXMLNode px( TRUE, 0, _T("Settings") );
 if( px.LoadFromFile( GetAppDataLocation( AfxGetApp()->m_pszRegistryKey, AfxGetApp()->m_pszAppName, _T("Settings.xml") ) ) )
 {
 CXTPPropExchangeSection pxDockingPane(px.GetSection(_T("DockingPane")));
 m_paneManager.DoPropExchange(&pxDockingPane);
}

As you can see, I create my panes and then i load up my layout from an existing settings file ... but the settings file knows nothing about this new pane (ID_PANE_EDITED_FILES) so it doesnt get added.

I can use m_paneManager.ShowPane( ID_PANE_EDITED_FILES ); to show the pane after loading the layout, but i cant use this all the time as it may be purposefully hidden by the user later on and doing this will keep showing it.

I also added a menu command to view the pane but that doesnt appear either.

Help, can you give me a solution, thanks.

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 05 January 2007 at 1:58am

Hi,

Check number of panes after you load layout:

m_paneManager.GetPaneList().GetSize() and if it was "1" call m_paneManager.CreatePane again.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: danpetitt
Date Posted: 05 January 2007 at 2:22am

Thanks Oleg

Its GetCount (for others reading this post, not GetSize).

Thanks a lot for this, I basically added this as per your suggestion and it works great:


// Create my panes
...
 
// Load my layout
....
 
// Check I have the right number of panes, if not, create my new ones
 if( m_paneManager.GetPaneList().GetCount() == 1 )
 {
  CXTPDockingPane *pProjectPane = m_paneManager.FindPane( ID_PANE_PROJECT );
  ASSERT( pProjectPane );
 
 CXTPDockingPane *pwndEditedFiles = m_paneManager.CreatePane( ID_PANE_EDITED_FILES, CRect(0, 0, 200, 150), xtpPaneDockRight );
  m_paneManager.AttachPane( pwndEditedFiles, pProjectPane );
}

Thanks again Oleg, you have saved me yet again :-)

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 05 January 2007 at 2:32am

No. GetPaneList().GetCount() must return number of created panes - no metter they was hidden or closed.

Don't call AttachPane if you create it after you load layout. Neighbour pane can be closed or hiddne.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 05 January 2007 at 2:34am

.... For future you can add versrion information to px section.

PX_Int(&px, "VersionInfo", m_nVersion, 0);

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: danpetitt
Date Posted: 05 January 2007 at 2:38am

Oops, you got in there whilst i was editing/correcting my original post (darn, no nothing makes sense to others) ... sorry.

Is this not okay as I want it to appear next to my Project Pane if its there?


  CXTPDockingPane *pProjectPane = m_paneManager.FindPane( ID_PANE_PROJECT );
  ASSERT( pProjectPane );
  CXTPDockingPane *pwndEditedFiles = m_paneManager.CreatePane( ID_PANE_EDITED_FILES, CRect(0, 0, 200, 150), xtpPaneDockRight );
  if( pProjectPane && !pProjectPane->IsHidden() && !pProjectPane->IsClosed() )
   m_paneManager.AttachPane( pwndEditedFiles, pProjectPane );

Posted By: danpetitt
Date Posted: 05 January 2007 at 2:45am

oleg wrote:

No. GetPaneList().GetCount() must return number of created panes - no metter they was hidden or closed.

Thats what I need isnt it, I want to only create the pane if its the total count available ... otherwise they could close it, re open the app and it would re-add it again.

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 05 January 2007 at 8:51am

Yes, think this code must work ok.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS