I am trying to figure out the best way to dock a floating popup. I don’t want to just dock it because doing so moves components around which I want to avoid. But when I opened it the desire is that it would open then dock itself south. I have tried getting the screen size and setting the position based on that. But I run into two issues; first it docks to far down and cuts half the popup off, second it does not account for my other docked window so it floats over top of it which I don’t want. What is the best way if any for me to go about accomplishing this?
It seems like you're asking for two fundamentally incompatible things.
Either it’s a popup, so it doesn’t affect the layout of components/windows “below” it, but by definition must float.
Or it’s a docked window, and you get the absolute positioning you want…but it must participate in layout and thus affect other components on the same layer.
Yeah I realize now my wording was not ideal to help understand. I do have it setup as a popup window currently which floats. All I need it to do is when I open it move to the bottom of the screen as if it was docked there. When I mentioned it overlaying another docked window I was referring to a West Docked window that is the Menu for the project. Originally I was position it at the bottom based on the screen size then increasing the width based on the screen size. Which was not the right approach.
I don’t remember if vision has options for keeping the popup open in the limits of the window or not. If it does, you could enable that and open the popup in an extreme position on the lower left corner (in this case) so the window positions itself as needed.
So it sounds like your explaining how to do it in Perspective and I am doing this in Vision. I do not have two south docked windows. I comment more detail in another message.
The popup in the center is my diagnositc window. Its purpose is that I can select a client then enable to make this popup appear on a field client so I can communicate with an operator when they call about certain issues. I want the popup to be docked to the bottom and stretch to fit without the components moving around like it does if you set it as a docked window. So basically a floating window that mimcs specific features of a docked window. Probably am asking for to much but if its possible I want to do it.
Here is how it currently appears on the field client screen as I am still testing. This is what the operator sees.
