Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
I will forbid the docking in the future. Is that a compromise?
It depends what you mean by forbid. I think docking has its uses.
And, after reading through most of this thread: If making things
dockABLE is possible without too much other chaos, then I don't myself
see why it shouldn't be done. For some people, especially people on
smaller screens, or people who (like my wife) like to work maximized, it
will be very, very useful. The main issue, I'd guess, is that the
geometry of a free-floating dialog tends to be wider rather than tall,
whereas a docked window has to fit somehow into the overall window
scheme, and these tend to be either tall rather than wide, or really
really wide. But there must be ways to deal with this---if only a
routine called fixGeometryForDocking() that would kill the existing
layout (usually a grid) and redo things. You could even do the layout
you wanted in Designer and then copy the needed code from the generated
header. Or you could have two dialog designs and use one or the other
depending upon the docking status. Both of these generate a little more
maintenance, but not hugely more.
Richard
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