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TabDock Version 2.4
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4/1/2003 3:09:04 PM |
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Stewart
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Update:
Thanks to neal who added the support for the maximize like button which makes the docked window maximize along with titlebar appearing on the side on top/bottom windows.
TabDock is designed to provide Docking support similiar to that seen in Visual Basic itself, VC++, and a number of other programs available on the market today. It was originally written by Marclei V Silva and though an excellent control it was somewhat on the buggy side and was missing a number of features.
This version has many of the desired features and all the known bugs have been worked out of it. It also directly incorperates the ssubtmr.dll from vbaccelerator so it is no longer a seperate requirement. New titlebar drawing methods are offered as well to give you options on how titlebars are drawn, and bottom/top docking is done side by side instead of on top of eachother. Also a persistant option is included which allows the tabdock control to automaticly load it's saved state up for you. It saves it even if the persistant state is off but will only read it and use it if the persistant state is on. It uses the registry.
Comments are welcome, and appreciated. You may modify and repost this code. The original author gave myself and Neal permission and the same permission is extended from us to you. This code is fairly advanced, and uses a lot of subclassing to achieve it's effect. Please note it is not recomended you close the IDE while running this through the IDE, it will likely crash if you do. Anyway enjoy :)
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 4/1/2003 4:11:26 PM:
Why is this coming up as an .3 file instead of a zip?
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4/1/2003 4:12:51 PM: Ackbar
I'll reupload it but if you want just rename it to tabdock23.zip or something like that. It's cause it was tabdock2.3.zip so psc bugged it and just put 2.3. Sorry bout that.
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4/2/2003 3:10:24 AM: J. Rostek
Cool Code 5 from me :-)
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4/2/2003 3:14:20 AM: Ackbar
Glad you like it :)
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4/2/2003 5:47:49 AM: Will Barden
Great :)
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4/2/2003 8:49:59 AM: Michael Canejo
Very nice code mate. I hope others will stop being lazy and vote while it downloads. Any vote is better than none. 5 globes from me.
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4/2/2003 3:03:09 PM: Ackbar
Happy everyone likes it. Any suggestions feel free.
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4/2/2003 11:24:40 PM: Pete {vbAVI}
You've submitted a lot of great code in the few years I've been using this site! Thanks and best wishes!
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4/3/2003 4:51:46 AM: Zhu JinYong
Try to draw Caption bar on left or right side for bottom docked Windows with "Close" button.It will be great.
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4/3/2003 4:53:16 AM: Ackbar
That is one thing I've wanted to impliment but not been able to figure out. Neither has neal. No available documentation that I can find on how to pull it off. Anyone know anything?
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4/3/2003 5:14:54 AM: Ackbar
Alas the one thing I do know is that part of the reason this can become difficult is because most docking utilizes a more frame method where as this is more litterly docking the forms to the mdi window instead of a frame. But... Maybe set the form to just plane borderless and different method of how it is placed in it's picturebox and draw a titlebar on the picturebox. Not sure how hard that would be.
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4/4/2003 1:37:18 AM: Ackbar
Vince if you see this would appreciate suggestions to improve it. Votes are nice and all but fairly meaningless to me. I prefer a comment for why you think what you think. An excellent or good I suppose requires no comments as it obviously emplies they are happy with it as is. But average implies you want something improved and I'd love to but you gotta tell me what.
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4/4/2003 2:52:42 AM:
If anyone is interested I have now changed the Tabdock control to draw the caption bar on the left side of forms docked at the top and bottom. Also I have implemented a collapse property (i.e. if you click on a button on the docked window it will collapse any other window docked and make itself full size)
I can forward the code to Ackbar for update on the site if enough people want it.
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4/4/2003 2:54:43 AM: Ackbar
I would appreciate that myself. Would be quite interesting to see. Who wrote that message though. Your name appears invisible :)
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4/4/2003 3:04:58 AM: Ackbar
Ah Neal nice to hear from you. Havn't talked in a while. I'd really very much like to see your improvments. Your awesome as a coder :)
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4/4/2003 8:18:24 AM: Dylan Morley
There's a simple bug in one of the Gradient OLE color properties, The Property Get for Gradient2 refers to Gradient1 & doesn't return a value...!
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4/4/2003 11:38:22 AM: Phantom Man
To The Person Thats Changed The Code To Implement Collapsing.
If You Truely Have Changed The Code Give It To Ackbar so He Can Implement It.
I Also Would Like to See It.
It Would Make The Control - Even Better Than It Is!
Regards
Phantom Man!
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4/4/2003 7:30:19 PM: Ackbar
He sent it to me and I will update it in about 15-20 mins. Just about to go eat dinner then your welcome to it. It was in fact neal rushforth who did it also responsible for a number of the changes :)
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4/5/2003 2:16:31 PM:
Hope everyone likes the additional changes to Tabdock I have made. Any problems don't hesitate to email.
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4/6/2003 4:02:12 AM: Matthias Zirngibl
Wheeeeeeee
This is GREAT!
Thank You and 5 from me
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4/6/2003 4:03:39 AM: Matthias Zirngibl
Is it possible to disable the close button of the docking windows?
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4/6/2003 4:04:24 AM: Ackbar
Not atm but that wouldn't be to hard to impliment.
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4/6/2003 4:17:57 AM: MArio Flores G
Never used before..cant make it to work..something is wrong with one missing reference or something..HELP :(
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4/6/2003 4:22:52 AM: Ackbar
What missing refrence? You did open the project group not one of the projects correct? Then you just run the default project which is the demo and shows how to make use of everything. If you want you can then compile the control from the controls project and make use of it in your own apps. Enjoy :)
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4/9/2003 12:55:14 PM: Phantom Man
Ackbar
If Your Interested I Have Made an Update To TabDock.
The Following Has Been Added Or Ammended:
My Version Of TabDock Now Has New Properties - HasCloseButton and HasMaxButton.
Enabling The User To Display The Max Only Button Or The Close Only Button Or Optionaly Both Or None.
If The Docked Form Has The Close Button Property Is Set To False The Form When Floating Has The Close Button Disabled!
The Splitter Bar Is Improved.
Gripper Bar Placement Has Been Improved
Plus More!!
If You Want It Email Me Your Email Address And I Will Send It To You!
Regards
Phantom Man
gwnoble@msn.com
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4/9/2003 9:46:26 PM:
Cool code but was wondering how one would get rid of the close button when docked but it appears when it is undocked as if it were a dockable toolbar/toolwindow
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4/26/2003 8:31:30 AM: Peter Wilson
5* from me because you got gazumped by NR/GN.
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4/28/2003 10:17:14 PM: Spodii
5 *****! W00t Ackbar! The CREATOR! =P
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4/29/2003 5:55:10 PM: Llama Boy
I have yet to use it, but from what I've read, I cant wait.
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7/15/2003 1:10:48 PM:
Hope you are still monitoring this, i have noticed even in the screen shot that the forms aren't drawn correctly. Their headers are overdrawing the top part of the form making the form look bad. I have run through the code for the past couple of hours but i was unable to find a solution that worked.
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7/15/2003 2:48:12 PM: Carl Bartlett
Sorry last one my name didn't come through... any another question, is there a way to detect the placement of the forms such that you could control where the form went in the position. currently the selected form always goes to the end... it would be better if the form found where it was released and inserted or moved it self accordingly...
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7/15/2003 2:51:32 PM: Carl Bartlett
Finally i just noticed that the forms have information and also don't have the window buttons only the close buttons... is there something i did wrong?
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9/15/2003 12:50:18 AM: illWill
Ive seen this same submission on www.sourceforge.com but not as updated!! Also i have not used this one yet but been interested in finding something as nice so i wouldnt have to reinvent the wheel n all :) TY for sharing your work here. Also www.visualbasicforum.com would be a good place to drop a link to your code. They have alot of examples there for docking forms in a MDI but none this good IMHO!
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10/15/2003 2:21:17 PM: Jeremy
I got the same error as MArio but I compiled the control and that seems to have solved that problem but I found that the objects in the docked window are painted over the caption, and I got another error when I tried the control out in one of my projects I have a single toolwindow Docked to the right with a toolbar in that form I thought the Toolbar didn't redraw correctly but when I click the raised edge at the bottom your control crashed and could recover. Now the I can't view the MDIform with the control. Error 0 is displayed by your control and after I get System Error &H800401F7 (-147221001)
Any thoughts Did I do something wrong?
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8/2/2009 1:41:22 PM: C0113c70r
I've tried for an hour to get this to work. No luck. Too many references to missing components and forms.
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