Hi.

I want to drag a visual component (eg a memo or a treeview) from an MDI
child into a tabbed page control (say on the master form, but generally
to anywhere) and then be able to drag it out again to a child windo
again later. Since the component in the child takes up the whole real
estate on the child form, Delphi will need to kill the old child window,
and open a new one again when the component is dragged out of the page
control.

How to do? How best to do?

Thanks,

LM.

I cannot give you a detailed recipe here since my experience with this
drag&dock stuff is severely limited. What i found is: if you assign the
MDI child form class to the FloatingDockSiteClass property of the control
you want to drag it will materialize on a new MDI child if you drag it out
of the old docksite. To get this to work correctly one probably needs to
play with the divers drag&dock event handlers (e.g. the docksite child
will not self-immolate if you drag the control out of it again, this needs
to be managed in code in an OnEndDock handler, i assume).

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Thanks, that's certainly got me on the right track. Do you have any ideas
about a good source for details? I don't recall seeing anything in the main
third party books, and the online help isn't much good - it just tells you
what the properties etc are without much input into how to use them.

Thanks again,

LM.

Sorry, I did not look at any of the D4 books and the topic has not been of
enough interest for me to follow it up myself. As usual the VCL source is the
ultimate documentation but it is not an easy read <g>.

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