Looking for tips/techniques to support the ability for users to OLE dragdrop between different pages in a pageframe with non-justified page tabs.
Goal: Mouse hovering over a page tab during an OLE dragdrop operation causes hovered page to be activated. This is similar behavior to what happens when OLE dragging to a program icon in the taskbar ... after hovering over the application's taskbar entry the application is activated in a restored state allowing it to become a target for a drop operation. Challenge: How to accurately detect hover on a pageframe page tab? Possible approaches: 1. Use fontmetric() to determine width/height of each page tab caption, add hard-coded assumptions for page tab caption padding heights/widths, store this info in a pageframe array, then use the pageframe's MouseMove() event to determine which tab is currently being hovered over, pause for a hover delay, and if hover detected, activate the appropriate tab. Add special logic to calculate width/height of active page tab with different constants for padding heights/widths since the active tab is taller and wider than a non-active tab. Also add logic to account for differences in padding/sizes between themed and non-themed environments. OR: 2. Turn off page tabs and implement page tab behavior via a container control filled with controls that look and behave like standard page tabs. Are there simpler ways to accomplish this? Thanks, Malcolm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
