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Re: Win32Lib GUI Question RE: Floating Toolbars

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Aug 11, 2004
• 393 views

Don wrote:
> 
> > Generally, how do they make it so that you can pull toolbars away from
> > their docked positions, then dock 'em again?
> > 
> 
> Actually thats a huge pain to implement.  You have to process mouse events
> and dynamically modify the Window styles.  Like for example you need to know
> when they left click down on the title area in the toolbar to start a drag
> process.  If they drag it far enough away, modify the Window style to popup
> instead of child.  *Poof* its detached.

Ahhhh. Thanks, Don! :)

> Like I said, big pain.  But if you get it working it looks real cool...

I might work on something like that for a future app. Sounds like too
much trouble right now. :)

-=ck
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