Docking toolbars 2

[Mike Lewis]

In many of my apps, I create a toolbar, then dock it to the top of the screen (by calling its Dock method with a param of 0).

In my present app, I want to handle two toolbars in that way. I create them both as usual, and the call Dock(0) for them both. They both appear at the top of the screen, but the second one appears below the first. I would rather see them side by side.

Does anyone know how to achieve that?

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Mike

[COLOR=blue]tbr1 = CREATEOBJECT([tbr1])
tbr2 = CREATEOBJECT([tbr2])

WITH tbr1
[tab].Dock(0,0,0)
[tab].Show()
ENDW

WITH tbr2
[tab].Dock(0,tbr1.Width,0)
[tab].Show()
ENDWITH[/color]

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Chris
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[Mike Lewis]

Chris,

Well I be durned. I never even noticed those extra params to Dock().

You've saved me lot of trouble. Many thanks. Got to be worth a star.

Mike

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Thanks for the star, Mike.

If you have more than 2, you apply the same logic and add the toolbar widths together to determine the left coordinate of the third or whatever toolbar.

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[craigsboyd]

Good Tip Chris. Star from me as well, since like Mike I was unaware that these new parameters had been added. Following this logic is there anyway to make this more generic so the actual names of the toolbars don't have to be known. Loop through the _screen.forms collection and check class and docked property for toolbars that are already there when opening and docking a new one?

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Thanks for the star, Craig.

A toolbar may be docked at 0 but the x coordinate may not necessarily be immediately to the right of the preceding toolbar if the user has moved it, so whay you suggesting may be more involved than at first appears.

You also stack the toolbars with

[COLOR=blue]tbr1 = CREATEOBJECT([tbr1])
tbr2 = CREATEOBJECT([tbr2])

WITH tbr1
    .Dock(0,0,0)
    .Show()
ENDW

WITH tbr2
    .Dock(0,0,29)
    .Show()
ENDWITH[/color]

FAQ184-2483 - answering getting answered.​

Chris
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[Mike Lewis]

I am planning to build this logic into my global toolbar manager. The manager keeps track of which toolbars are open, so it should be able to figure out the best location for each new toolbar.

Thanks again, Chris.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My sites:
Visual FoxPro (www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk)
Crystal Reports (www.ml-crystal.com)

 

[TamarGranor]

Be aware that toolbar position behavior is kind of flaky. Christof did a piece on this in the Advisor Answers column a while back. It's worth looking at.

Also, fyi, the x,y parameters to Dock aren't new. They've been there all along.

Tamar

 

[Dan Freeman]

They have? That's news to me. LOL

 

[Mike Lewis]

Tamar,

Christof did a piece on this in the Advisor Answers column a while back.

I found it -- it was back in October 01. Should be useful. Thanks.

I've spent nearly two days trying to create a generic industrial-strength toolbar manager. It's much more difficult than I thought. All kinds of little wrinkles to worry about. But it's nearly done now.

Also, fyi, the x,y parameters to Dock aren't new. They've been there all along.[/u]

Well, they were new to me. One of those many things in VFP that I just never noticed.

Mike



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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My sites:
Visual FoxPro (www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk)
Crystal Reports (www.ml-crystal.com)

 

[Mike Lewis]

<< later >>

I wish I had read Christof's article before I started all this. It was a great help.

Saturday afternoon, and I've finally got my Toolbar Manager so that it can open and close toolbars just about anywhere, remember the dock status and position as they closed, and restore these the next time they are opened.

Next, I've got to give the user a choice between small buttons and large buttons. That'll probably break everything I've just done.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My sites:
Visual FoxPro (www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk)
Crystal Reports (www.ml-crystal.com)