Undocking behavior

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fizzjob
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Undocking behavior

Post by fizzjob »

I'm trying to figure out how to natively make my HTML Now Playing Panel go full-screen. I've been able to figure out how to move it around from within the UI:

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Sub dockPanel(where)
	Dim panel : set Panel = CreateObject("SongsDB.SDBApplication")
	Panel.Objects("htmlpanel").dockedTo = where
End Sub
That code is in the html file that the panel loads - a javascript function calls the vbscript and it works fine if I just want to move the panel around within MediaMonkey. But if I try to pass that sub a parameter of 0 to undock, the panel just disappears. When I re-dock the panel, it's just a blank white panel.

The secondary trick is to make the panel go fullscreen, but that's irrelevant if I can't figure out the undocking issue first.
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Re: Undocking behavior

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Can you make small VBS sample with just resize function in order to track reasons?
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fizzjob
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Re: Undocking behavior

Post by fizzjob »

This should illustrate the disappearing panel issue. I've added a sub to toggle the panel's handle so you can see that manually undocking and docking the panel works.

For some reason, if I open the same HTML file in IE it's not controlling the panel. I swear that was working for me before and I don't think anything I did should have broken that. It's a secondary concern if I can get the panel undocking properly, but I'm confused by it all the same.

Both of these should go into /scripts/auto:

panel.html

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<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=10">
	<meta http-equiv="X-Frame-Options" content="allow">
	<title>Test Panel</title>
	<script type="text/vbscript">
	<!--
	Sub dockPanel(where)
		Dim panel : set Panel = CreateObject("SongsDB.SDBApplication")
		Panel.Objects("testpanel").dockedTo = where
	End Sub
	
	Sub toggleHandle()
		Dim panel : set Panel = CreateObject("SongsDB.SDBApplication")
		If Panel.Objects("testpanel").ShowCaption = true Then
			Panel.Objects("testpanel").ShowCaption = false
		Else
			Panel.Objects("testpanel").ShowCaption = true
		End If
	End Sub
	-->
	</script>
</head>
<body style="background-color:#000000; color:#FFFFFF">
	<input type="button" value="Top" onclick="vbscript:dockPanel('3')">
	<input type="button" value="Bottom" onclick="vbscript:dockPanel('4')">
	<input type="button" value="Left" onclick="vbscript:dockPanel('1')">
	<input type="button" value="Right" onclick="vbscript:dockPanel('2')">
	<input type="button" value="Undock" onclick="vbscript:dockPanel('0')">
	<input type="button" value="Toggle Handle" onclick="vbscript:toggleHandle()">
</body>
</html>
testpanel.vbs

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Dim testPanel : Set testPanel = SDB.UI.NewDockablePersistentPanel("testpanel")
Dim testHtmlPnl
Dim Mnu

Sub OnStartup
	If testPanel.IsNew then
		testPanel.DockedTo = 3
		testPanel.Common.Height = 500
	End If
	testPanel.Caption = "testpanel"
	testPanel.ShowCaption = 0
	Set testHtmlPnl = SDB.UI.NewActiveX(testPanel, "Shell.Explorer.2")
	testHtmlPnl.Common.Align = 5
	testHtmlPnl.Interf.Navigate SDB.ScriptsPath & "Auto\panel.html"
	Set SDB.Objects("testpanel") = testPanel
	Set SDB.Objects("htmltestpanel") = testHtmlPnl 
	Set Sep = SDB.UI.AddMenuItemSep(SDB.UI.Menu_View,0,0) 
	Set Mnu = SDB.UI.AddMenuItem(SDB.UI.Menu_View,0,0) 
	SDB.Objects("TestPanelMenuItem") = Mnu
	SDB.Objects("TestPanelSeparator") = Sep
	Mnu.Caption = "testpanel" 
	Mnu.Checked = testPanel.Common.Visible 
	Script.RegisterEvent Mnu, "OnClick", "ShowPanel"
End Sub

Sub ShowPanel(Item) 
	testPanel.Common.Visible = not testPanel.Common.Visible 
	Mnu.Checked = testPanel.Common.Visible
End Sub
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