Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequently Asked Questions
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| Q. | When user doubleclicks the form, the AppBar will restore previous placement [LastDockingPlace property]. Is there a way to avoid re-positioning of the AppBar ?
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| A. | To disallow restoring of previous placement on doubleclick, just hook OnDblClick event.
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| Q. | I have docked the AppBar to the left border of screen on program startup but the form appears with the same width as in "floating" state!
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| A. | Seems that your form contains a lot of non-resizeable (not aligned) controls and should have enough space to show them, however can not auto-scroll for displaying. Just set "AutoScroll" property of your form to True.
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| Q. | I have docked the form to the screen edge, but seems I can not resize it. Your demo programs allows to resize docked appbars. I have also checked Enabled property of Sizing structure and it's True. What I doing wrong?
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| A. | Sure, you can not resize forms with fixed BorderStyle (i.e.: bsDialog or bsSingle). Just make your form resizeable, set BorderStyle property to bsSizeable or bsSizeToolWin.
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| Q. | Is there a way to delay the popup when anchored to the edge of the screen [when the AppBar is "autohidden"]? (I've had a couple users complain that they moved their mouse to fast when trying to get to a desktop icon or somewhere else and went to far and caused the appbar to pop out even though they quickly moved it away)
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| A. | Yes. You should hook OnUnhiding event and unhide the AppBar with delay (delay can be implemented with TTimer component), using ShowHiddenAppBar method. Please check out an example for more details.
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| Q. | I have a form with AppBar on it. There is a panel on the form. This hides part of the form. When I try to drag the form to dock it to the side of the screen or to undock it obviously now it doesn't work. Could you suggest a way in which I could fire the event which docks, undocks and moves the form when the user clicks or tries to drag the panel component.
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| A. | In AppControls v2.2.1 we have added bonus component, TacDragPanel. You can drop this panel to the AppBar and user will be able to move and dock the appbar dragging this panel.
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