HowTo set hIconTab for DockingDlgInterface?

Coises

I think that you cannot convert a png into an icon in this way. If an icon is expected, I believe that’s what you must supply.

Perhaps try this with a *.ico file, just as a test. If that works, then you’ll know you need to convert your png into an ico before adding it to your resources.

MarioRosi

@Coises

thanks for the idea.

It is a partial solution. With an icon its create the icon-handle with

...
data.hIconTab = (HICON)::LoadIcon(getHinst(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_CHANGE));
...

But the DockingDlgInterface don not display the icon…

ThosRTanner

@MarioRosi Have you set the DWS_ICONTAB bit in data.uMask?

You need to set that for the icon to display.

I think I might publish my highly overengineered replacement for DockingDlgInterace at some point cos the current one takes a lot of experimentation to get right.

Alan Kilborn

@ThosRTanner said in HowTo set hIconTab for DockingDlgInterface?:

I think I might publish my highly overengineered replacement for DockingDlgInterace at some point cos the current one takes a lot of experimentation to get right.

Yes, please!

Michael Vincent

@MarioRosi said in HowTo set hIconTab for DockingDlgInterface?:

But the DockingDlgInterface don not display the icon…

Your mask is not set correctly:

data.uMask = DWS_DF_CONT_RIGHT | DWS_ICONTAB;

Cheers.

MarioRosi

@Michael-Vincent

thanks, that it

ThosRTanner

@Alan-Kilborn Working on it here. I will probably fiddle with the API (and clang settings) and the documentation is definitely still in need of serious work, but it builds and runs

C++17 is required.

Feel free to play with it/raise issues/…

https://github.com/ThosRTanner/Docking_Dialogue_Interface

Alan Kilborn

@ThosRTanner said in HowTo set hIconTab for DockingDlgInterface?:

Feel free to play with it/raise issues/…

It is now officially on my to-do list. :-)
Thanks for your efforts.

Alan Kilborn

@ThosRTanner

I gave it a quick try (with Vis. Studio 2022 Community Ed.) but was confused by this from the docs:

The layout of this assumes you have created a repositories directory and cloned the notepad++ template repo and this repo into there.

Since there are no releases of this, I simply got a zip of the code and extracted it to a folder. Building the .sln I got not-found errors regarding PluginInterface.h which reminded me that I needed the real “notepad++ template” code, so I went and got that, but I was unsure where to put it in the source tree…

Later EDIT:

In Vis. Studio’s “Solution Explorer” for the new template code, I see there’s a Notepad++ Headers folder which references PluginInterface.h. Looking at what path it thinks that is at, I see it is at the same level as the base folder for this new template, thus I think this is what’s needed:

...\myfolder\Docking_Dialogue_Interface-master\ <-- new template code
...\myfolder\plugintemplate\ <-- official Notepad++ template code

With this, the “not found” problems seem to be cleared up, but I get some different errors from that point onward…

@ThosRTanner , should I open an issue on the site for the project to continue discussing, so as to not annoy uninterested readers here?

rdipardo

@Alan-Kilborn said in HowTo set hIconTab for DockingDlgInterface?:

should I open an issue on the site for the project to continue discussing, so as to not annoy uninterested readers here?

https://github.com/ThosRTanner/Docking_Dialogue_Interface/issues/1

Alan Kilborn

@ThosRTanner said:

I think I might publish my highly overengineered replacement for DockingDlgInterace at some point cos the current one takes a lot of experimentation to get right.

More of an official announcement for it is HERE.