topic Re: How to dock the RollDownPalette in Archicad C++ API

How to dock the RollDownPalette

satoshi shimokura — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 13:03:56 GMT

hello.
Always I am indebted.

I tried making a RollDownPalette by referring to the BasicElementIconsRollDownDialog in the DG_Test sample.
I'm in trouble because I can't make it a docking palette.

When creating a general palette by inheriting the Palette class, in the constructor

const GS::Guid TestPaletteGuid{ "C67E8137-A2AC-42FD-BDE6-413F509731B8" }; // constructor TestPalette::TestPalette() : DG::Palette(ACAPI_GetOwnResModule(), ID_TEST_PALETTE, ACAPI_GetOwnResModule(), TestPaletteGuid)

I know that you can make it a docking palette by specifying a Guid like this.

However, in order to create a RollDownPalette, you must inherit the RollDownPalette class instead of the Palette class,
I wrote this in the constructor, but it doesn't dock.

const GS::Guid TestPaletteGuid{ "C67E8137-A2AC-42FD-BDE6-413F509731B8" }; // constructor TestPalette::TestPalette(DG::NativePoint* posistion) :UD::RollDownPalette(TestPaletteGuid, posistion, Close)

A Guid is given to the constructor of the base class, but this Guid may not be inherited to the Palette of the base class.
I also thought that there might be other constructors, so I searched for other constructors of the RollDownPalette class, but found only these constructors.

RollDownPalette (const GS::Guid& guid, CloseType closeType = NoClose, CaptionType captionType = TopCaption, FrameType frameType = NormalFrame); RollDownPalette (const GS::Guid& guid, const DG::NativePoint* position = nullptr, CloseType closeType = NoClose, CaptionType captionType = TopCaption, FrameType frameType = NormalFrame);

Since there is a RollDownPalette that is docked with the palettes provided in Archicad (for example, the toolbox docked at the left end of the screen), I think it will be possible...

If you know how to dock the RollDownPalette, please let me know.

Thank you.

Re: How to dock the RollDownPalette

julienK — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:35:47 GMT

For a palette to be dockable, it has to have the noGrow argument in the grc file:

'GDLG' JKSRFTOOLS_JKPLT_RESID Palette | leftCaption | noGrow | close 0 0 80 34 "JKPalette Example" { /* [ 1] */ IconButton 5 2 30 30 JKSettings_IconId /* [ 2] */ IconButton 40 2 30 30 JKZoneToolLarge_IconId }

Re: How to dock the RollDownPalette

satoshi shimokura — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 12:53:18 GMT

julien quadra

Thank you for your reply.

> For a palette to be dockable, it has to have the noGrow argument in the grc file:

However, I think that the argument to be added to the grc file is not noGrow but grow.
Another common palette that I have implemented is docking with argument grow and not docking with noGrow.

Please try it in your environment.

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Also, the problem in this thread is not a general palette that inherits the DG::Palette class as you replied
A special palette that inherits from the UD::RollDownPalette class.

I made a simple sample. (attached image)
This is the undocked state, but it's working fine in our environment.

This roll-down palette has a structure like a parent with multiple tab pages as children,
Each tab page has its own resources and classes.

The parent page has a class but no resources.
(The resource in the green part of the image is just the text provided for the child palette heading)

I also wanted to specify grow as an argument if the parent resource exists
Cannot be specified because the resource itself does not exist.

I think that the child tab page is probably not related to docking
These are also tab pages, not palettes, so I don't think grc has any items related to docking.

It may be a difficult problem, but if there is someone with knowledge
I would like you to help me.

Thank you.