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--- Stewart Greenhill <greenhil{([at]})nowhere.xy
> At 12:05 PM 16/9/99 PDT, Bob Walkden wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >a few words to introduce myself, and a question
> which I hope someone can
> >help me with, please.
> [...]
>
> >This brings me to my question: does anybody have,
> or know where I can get,
> >CP code for toolbars, and/or docking windows?
>
> A good question. I had some thoughts about how to do
> this.
>
> Firstly, one would need a container view that did
> some sort of geometry
> management (the toolbar). Toolbars need to be able
> to re-arrange their
> contents according to their shape. The forms in
> Blackbox don't do this, but
> it would not be hard to write a container that did.
>
> Secondly, (the hard part) one would need to be able
> to insert a view (the
> docking controller) into the MDI parent frame to
> manage the arrangement of
> toolbars within it. The framework does not currently
> allow this; views can
> only exist in client windows. Thus, we would need
> some help from Oberon
> Microsystems. I doubt that this would be difficult,
> but it would need some
> modifications at a fairly low level.
>
> There would probably also be some issues to do with
> window creation and
> management. For example, when you drag a toolbar out
> of the docking area a
> new window is created and dragged at the same time.
> This means that windows
> would have to be explicitly created and positioned.
> There are probably some
> goodies in the Windows module to do this, but its
> not yet documented. In
> BCF, mouse tracking is handled as a modal process
> (ie. a loop that does not
> return until the mouse is released). This would
> probably block the
> framework from updating the new window while it is
> being dragged.
> Personally, I would like to see a non-modal tracking
> facility. This would
> allow other things to keep happening (eg. view
> updating, actions executing)
> while the mouse is being tracked.
>
> Cheers,
> - Stewart
>
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