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Topic: how to get F1 help working on docking pane control

Posted By: klausd
Subject: how to get F1 help working on docking pane control
Date Posted: 17 September 2007 at 4:33am

I would like to support 'F1 help' for the controls of a
docking pane (like title bar, close box or pane tabs).

While context help is supported via CXTPDockingPaneTabbedContainer::OnHelpHitTest,
F1 help seems not to be supported per se.
What would be the most appropriate way to implement it?

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 17 September 2007 at 5:28am

Hi,

You can create class derived from CXTPDockingPaneTabbedContainer catch OnHelpHitTest and return your values for close and caption. Now override CDockingPaneManager and add

CXTPDockingPaneBase* CDockingPaneManager::OnCreatePane(XTPDockingPaneType type, CXTPDockingPaneLayout* pLayout)
{
if (type == xtpPaneTypeTabbedContainer)
return new CMyDockingPaneTabbedContainer(pLayout);

return CXTPDockingPaneManager::OnCreatePane(type, pLayout);

}

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: klausd
Date Posted: 17 September 2007 at 5:50am

Oleg,

AFAIK OnHelpHitTest is called only for context help
(via CFrameWnd::OnContextHelp), it is not involved
in F1 help.

The command bar classes seem to implement this by
remembering the selected control and then hooking the
ID_HELP command message of the frame. I see no similar
mechanism in the docking pane classes, though.

Regards
Klaus

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 18 September 2007 at 2:23am

Hello,

Yes it will work for context help. if user press F1 instead of context help, he is waiting help for current docking pane window.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS