How about a full working example?

[Joel]

I found the lack of examples a rather intimidating thing. I like the concept of wxAUI and all its features, but I just can't seem to get it to woerk without a proper understanding of logic.

The provided example on the site is rather simplistic, and isn't "real world" enough, if you get what I mean. I'm really just itnerested in the toolbar docking stuff, not really the floating panel stuff, but nonetheless...

[Ben]

Did you take a look at the sample in the "sample" directory in wxAUI itself? It has a fully functional 1000-line example which attempts to use every part of the library.

The small example on the website was an attempt to demonstrate the smallest possible docking window application. It wasn't meant to be in-depth at all.

I guess my question is: did you find the sample application inside wxAUI itself insufficient?

All the best,
Ben

[Joel]

oh great.... im officially blind (not as in really blind, but im blind as in i cant take notice of things....) sorry bout that

[Joel]

For some strange reason LoadPerspective doesn't work, I just took the string SavePerspective returned me, then did a LoadPerspective after the frame was created (so the 'workspace' is saved). Now when I move the toolbar around, the other part of the frame with all my main controls and all disappear sometimes I also get a memory violation, and I've rebuilt my project quite a few times now...

[Joel]

correction: the access violation occurs at program shutdown...

and if I compile a build without the LoadPerspective, it shuts down fine... am I doing something wrong somewheres?

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   //do the toolbars
   wxPaneInfo tool;
   tool.ToolbarPane().Top().LeftDockable(false).RightDockable(false).Caption(lang["Standard Toolbar"]);
   background_toolbar->SetSize(background_toolbar->GetBestSize());
   manager.AddPane(background_toolbar, tool);
   SetToolBar(NULL);
   
   wxPaneInfo main;
   main.Fixed().CaptionVisible(false).PaneBorder(false).Centre().Resizable();
   manager.AddPane(background_panel, main);
   manager.Update();

   manager.LoadPerspective(config->Read("Toolbar Layout", ""));

of course, ive made sure that the registry key isn't empty...

[Ben]

You probably just need to call wxFrameManager::UnInit() in your frame class's destructor.

Best,
Ben

[Joel]

I did... and i personally find it weird...

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   //Handle the toolbar
   background_toolbar->SetSize(background_toolbar->GetBestSize());
   wxPaneInfo tool;
   tool.ToolbarPane().Top().LeftDockable(false).RightDockable(false).Caption(lang["Standard Toolbar"]);
   manager.AddPane(background_toolbar, tool);
   SetToolBar(NULL);
   
   wxPaneInfo main;
   main.CaptionVisible(false).PaneBorder(false).Centre().Resizable();
   manager.AddPane(background_container, main);
   manager.Update();

and then I get this:
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the toolbar doesn't work; you can't click ANYTHING, and resizing doesn't work... it was because I accidentally reverted and lost all my changes... but using back the sources above, I got that...

[Ben]

I'll try to draw some conclusions by looking at your screenshot (however, without more contextual code it may not be possible to diagnose the real problem).

Whenever drawn items (such as the pane gripper) don't show, it's almost inevitably due to the fact that another window is covering it up. This often stems from some window which is not managed properly by the frame manager.

We ran into this problem with wxMDIParentFrame a while back. It turned out that the MDI Client window hadn't been properly managed as the center pane. This, btw, is fixed in the upcoming 0.9.1

Are you absolutely sure that your center pane is being managed by wxAUI? Also check to make sure you are not doing any custom sizing in your frame's OnSize, as this would result in unpredictable behavior.

[Joel]

OK, i solved most of it.
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Now, the toolbar doesn't show the borders properly... I know its trivial, but...

[Joel]

ah... its the toolbar style.... fixed it. Thanks ben. (omg, your the 3rd ben I know )