I try to create an area onto a CDialog, where I can put some CDockablePanes in. Those shall be perfectly dockable to a fixed dialog content.
The Codejock Dialog Panes Sample is exactly what I want, but realized with the MFC feature pack classes: http://codejock.com/downloads/samples/dockingpane.asp
At the moment I got a class inherited from CFrameWndEx, which is embedded in the CDialog. I also got a working CDockablePane in it. I can undock it and move it, but when I want to dock it the program crashes.
This is because the dockable pane class tries to generate a dummy pane for previewing where the real pane would go. It calls GetTopLevelFrame() which returns NULL. This produces the crash in afxpane.cpp @CreateEx().
Does someone has any help or ideas for me? :(
Greets,
Edit:
Okay, some code:
I wrote a little class inherited from CFrameWndEx (because its constructor is protected):
class CMyFrame: public CFrameWndEx
{
public:
DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
afx_msg int OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct);
CDockablePane m_DockWnd; // Will use an own class inherited from CDockablePane later on
};
Now I embedded this class in my CDialog and change its size to the dialogs size:
BOOL CMyDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
CRect wndRect;
GetWindowRect(wndRect);
m_pFrame = new CMyFrame();
m_pFrame->Create(NULL, NULL, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER, wndRect, this);
m_pFrame->MoveWindow(wndRect);
CDialog::OnInitDialog();
...
}
In the OnCreate() of the CMyFrame class I set up the CDockablePane and dock it:
int CMyFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
if (CFrameWndEx::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
return -1;
CMFCVisualManager::SetDefaultManager(RUNTIME_CLASS(CMFCVisualManagerWindows));
EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
// DT_SMART creates dummy dockable panes for previewing the possible position of
// the currently floating pane, this leads to a crash at call to GetTopLevelFrame()
CDockingManager::SetDockingMode(DT_SMART);
EnableAutoHidePanes(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
// m_DockWnd is a CDockablePane
if (!m_DockWnd.Create(_T("Test"), this, CRect(0, 0, 200, 200), TRUE, IDC_DOCK_WND,
WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CLIPSIBLINGS | WS_CLIPCHILDREN | CBRS_LEFT | CBRS_FLOAT_MULTI))
{
TRACE0("Failed to create Properties window\n");
return 1; // failed to create
}
m_DockWnd.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
DockPane(&m_DockWnd);
return 0;
}