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How do I acheive the toolbox effect that is seen in the Visual Basic development environment. I want different toolboxes to appear that are aligned to my MDI form, depending on what action the user is wanting to perform. There is a work area as well, where different forms will appear, and will be arranged (tiled or cascaded) by the MDI form, but I want the toolboxes to remain aligned to the form. What are these toolboxes? Are they picture boxes, toolbars, or some type of form?
I guess it's ordinary toolwindows, stuck to one side of the form (or floating). I've seen several samples of how to create a toolbox, but none were like the real thing. My wild guess is that M$ fools around with new (?) functions, which will be available to us in the next year or so (as usual...) :-) I guess that one of the things they do is subclass the main window, and when the client size is being asked (for instance to make the mdichild maximized, they return the value calculated with the size of the tool window so it won't be covered.
Like I said, just a wild guess, I've never thought about creating one myself...Hope this gives any ideas though.... good luck ;-)
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