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| Submitted on: 4/1/2003 3:09:04 PM
By: Ackbar
Level: Advanced
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By 40 Users
Compatibility:VB 5.0, VB 6.0
Users have accessed this code 4221 times.
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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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