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Docking gone screwy
Using VB6 with Service Pack 3 on Windows NT. One day, in the heat of battle, all the "parts" of my development scene got "unstuck". Don't know how that happened, but I want it back the way it was. Toolbox vertical on the left, Project tree window and Properties window one above the other and docked at the right, and all code and form windows limited to the wide space between (conventional, I see this setup pictured in various books). I went through the usual process of "docking", and the best I can do is dock the toolbox where it belongs, and the tree/over/properties to each other. If I go further, those last two INSIST on spanning the space from the toolbar across to the right hand edge. How on earth can I beat them into submission, and make them stay put docked where I want them? I can enable their docking properties, drag them to the right, but they snap back across the available space, spanning it. -- Norm
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Thank you for your interest. The project and properties windows dock to each other all right, one above the other. Together, sitting in the middle of the screen. Now, I attempt to drag them over to the right to dock them against the right hand edge. When I release the mouse button, they SNAP to a docked position pasted against the top of the screen (up against the bottom of the tool bar). They remain one below the other, but both stretch clear across from the tool box on the left (which is docked properly) to the right hand screen edge. -- Norm
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MTroutwine: Thank you! Your instructions seemed to work. There remains a slight "margin" around the toolbox. I seem to think it docked "nice and tight" before. I recently installed service pack 3, and wonder if that has anything to do with all this. I've been very busy developing a product so it can "go out the door", and haven't had time to fuss with this, but it was getting really annoying.
Many thanks again. -- Norm
Many thanks again. -- Norm
Just trying to follow what's happening here. Are you saying that the Project and Properties windows are docking on top of each other but spanning the entire window (horizontal) or are they spanning the vertically? Let me know if I am on track...