>I'm thinking of adding a task pane interface to one of my applications and am looking for thoughts on how I might implement this interface. My goal is to implement an interface similar to Office 2003 task panes. My application framework is TopLevel form vs. _SCREEN based. I want to avoid 3rd party ActiveX/COM components.
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>I plan on reviewing VFP's TaskPane source code (in XSOURCE.ZIP), but I'm also interested in other approaches. (From what I can tell, the VFP task pane is mostly webbrowser based)
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>Here's my list of possible techniques for implementing a task pane interface:
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>- docked toolbar with container
>- docked MDI window(s)
>- seperate form manually docked to edge
>- container within current form
>- other ?
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>Interested in your thoughts.
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>Malcolm

This will help with the WebBrowser interface talking to the VFP code.

"Using IE control and HTML pages to drive Fox programs"
http://www.glrsoftware.com/download.asp#FoxHTML.zip

The method used in it is simular to that in the VFP Task Pane.

But, for the docking part, that can only be implemented in VFP 9.0.

Good Luck