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Hi ..
Our applicaiton has a Dialog Bar implementation similar to the FixedSizePanel example (Panel with Dialog). We would like to prevent the ControlBar from redocking once we dock it after its been created. Also we would like to have the close button displayed when it is docked..

Is this possible?

thanks,
Mark F.

The following set of virtual methods should simply return false if you want to lock only one bar:

 CExtControlBar::_DraggingIsEnabled()
 CExtControlBar::_RowResizingIsEnabled()
 CExtControlBar::_RowRecalcingIsEnabled()
 CExtControlBar::_FloatStateChangingIsEnabled()
 CExtControlBar::_NcMenuButtonIsEnabled()
 CExtControlBar::_ClosingIsEnabled()
 CExtControlBar::_AutoHidingIsEnabled()
 CExtControlBar::OnConstructDockSiteControlBarPopupMenu()
 CExtControlBar::_CanDockToTabbedContainers()
 CExtControlBar::_CanDockLTRB()

Please note you can lock all the contro bars by using the following code:

CExtControlBar::g_bLockAllBars = true;
pMainFrame->RecalcLayout();
CExtControlBar::stat_RecalcBarMetrics( pMainFrame );

As for the Close button, there is no way to add it in the current implementation of the panel control bar when it is docked.