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Any way to do HitTest on TabbedMdiWindow.ContextImage

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Posted 18 years ago by shark92651
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I would like to display a different tool-tip and allow a different click action if the user is hovering over or clicking on the tab image rather than the rest of the tab. My first thought was to use the WindowTabToolTipDisplaying and try to do a HitTest of some sort. I cannot find any docs on performing a HitTest on the tab of the TabbedMdiWindow nor do I know if this is the best approach. Do you have any suggestions?

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Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Here's some code that may help... 
Point point = tabStrip.PointToClient(Control.MousePosition);
TabStripTab tab = ((IUIElement)tabStrip).HitTestRecursive(new PointHitTestParameters(point)).Element as TabStripTab;
if (tab != null)
    Console.WriteLine(tab.Bounds + " : " + point);
Basically it determines what tab the mouse is over and prints the bounds and the point. All our renderers should have the context image indented in from the right/bottom side of the tab by the renderer's TabStripTabImageMargin value plus the width/height of the context image. So using that info you can determine the bounds of the context image.

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Posted 18 years ago by shark92651
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I took a look at that for a bit when I found the other post. I am confused though, HitTestRecursive seems to be something that is implemented in .NET 3.0. I was unable to find any way to get HitTestRecursive or IUIElelment to work with the TabbedMdiWindow.
Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Sorry, that code above is if you have the TabStrip reference. When a TabbedMdiWindow is in tabbed MDI, its Parent should a TabStripPage. And that control's parent should be a TabStrip. So from that you can use the above code.

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Posted 18 years ago by shark92651
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Ok, I think I have this working now. I was totally confused because when I searched for IUIElement I found that it belonged to an assembly named Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop and did not realize that it was in WinUICore.
Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Ahh, yes that interface is part of our WinUICore framework.

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The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 4 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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