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Its not so easy as that but I fixed things. The problem is that toolbars, when they are floatable, need to be in a parent panel that uses a BorderLayout. Also, it looks like their floatable property needs to be set before things are added to them.During the course of a McV meeting we began wondering about making ViewpointControls dockable, so I decided to look around the IDV sources.I saw the various calls along the lines of "vpc.setFloatable(false)" and that the various data members I could use to get access to ViewPointControl.getToolBar() are protected, so I can't think of any reason why I couldn't just write a plugin that grabs the current VPC and enables floating/docking.Does this assumption seem reasonable? Is there any reason that they aren't already capable of doing this? I ask due to the images in sections 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 of the user's guide looking like floating is enabled.
I have changed some of the toolbar handling code to fix the above problems and use a property:
idv.viewmanager.toolbars.floatable=false To determine whether toolbars are floatable. The IDV should look&feel the same because the default is false.
Offtopic: Thanks for coming up to Madison to help us along! [I'm the newly minted CS grad].
No problem. It was good to meet all of you. -Jeff
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