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Undocking Dialogs outside of parent window?

I want to begin a project and have an idea in mind, though don't know how to go about starting it.

My project is going to have many dialog/form views, to one document. So will probably go with a SDI CFormView based project, or Dialog based.

I'd like to have a vertical splitter, with one pane being used for the dialogs. The other side will be used to go to all the other dialogs (tree view or list view, or tabs, etc).

However, if my user wants to see more than one dialog at a time, I want to be able to "pop out" a dialog from the parent frame, and have it sort of float anywhere on the desktop. In this way, they can either see one dialog contained within one app. frame, or they can have many dialogs placed around the desktop for easy viewing.

Any ideas on where to start, or to search further?

Thanks,

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gunn

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I've been wondering about the doc/view architecture...wondering basically that I may not want to use it, *if* that is possible. All of my smaller apps have used it, just because. But since this is larger, and I can't get it to mold to the doc/view way, I'm wondering if I can work around it, not use it at all?

I'll do some tests with some modeless dialogs and see how that works. Thanks for the tip. I'll get back with an update.

MRNMurthy

Hi,

I will make an attemp & I will update my comments.

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DanRollins

hi gunn,
Do you have any additional questions? DO any comments need clarification?

-- Dan

gunn

ASKER

Hi Dan,

Actually, I was just waiting on MRN for a reply. And I'm still trying to get around to doing some testing on the concept and see if/how it turns out. I'll be back... ;)

DanRollins

MRNMurthy has chimed in with similar informationless "I'll check into this and get back to you" posts in about a dozen recent Qs. I have not seen him keep any of those promises.

-- Dan

DanRollins

hi gunn,
Do you have any additional questions? Do any comments need clarification?

-- Dan

DanRollins

hi gunn,
Do you have any additional questions? Do any comments need clarification?

-- Dan

gunn

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Back to civilization....I was able to put together a quick demo using modeless dialogs. That pretty much worked the way I wanted. I was able to use the size of the main parent window to make the modeless dialog size itself to the window when "inside it" to make it look like it was, but it was able to be dragged outside around it.

Another guy exploring the same concept worked out an even better solution, though I don't know the details yet, we'll be going that route. Once we get back to this particular project....

Thanks,