Hello,
Im trying to get the functionality simmilar to my.msn, where you can click the head of each web part and drag it. I cant seem to find a way to tell if the head of a web part is clicked on in normal display mode. Any ideas?

Thanks

Set the WebPartManager's DisplayMode property to DesignDisplayMode.

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Right, but how do you know when they click on the webpart title in browse mode. I want to click and drag.

When the mode is set to DesignDisplayMode, you can drag around webparts. If you want to get the the WebPart that are moved, you can use the WebPartManager's WebPartMoved event. This event will be executed when the WebParts has bean moved to a new zone.

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There is no way to drag and drop WebParts in BrowseDisplayMode.

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It would be nice if users could drag around the web part without having to switch a menu or toggle a state. At least, they should not be *aware* they are toggling a state.

Any limitations in having the default state be design and not browse? All of the webparts will display and function as they normally do in design state, right?

I guess, if this is not the case, the workaround is to have a clickable region or button in the header which toggles the state to design, and then reverts back to browse state onmouseup?

LP

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The WebPart will still be working even if you change the mode to the desing mode.

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I think the best workaround would be to always have the WebPartManager in DesignMode instead of BrowseMode. For example, you could write a derived WebPartManager and override the DesignMode property getter, so that it returns DesignDisplayMode instead of BrowseDisplayMode.

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Hi everybody

How do you recognize the current displaystate from within a webpart (Browsemode / editmode / catalogmode and so) - I have tried me.webpartmanager.displaymode.name but it says Browse no matter what happens in real.

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Henrik S?rensen, OPTION APS Denmark

Where did you try to get the Name (which event)? If you use the WebPartPageMenu, the mode is set after the Page_Load event. So if your try to get the Name of the current view in the Page_Load, you will get the previous mode. If you change the mode programmatically before your get the Name of the DisplayMode, you should get the correct name. You can also get the current name of the mode, within the Page_PreRender event.

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Hi Fredrik

I tried in the CreateChildControls event and in page_load but got the same 'browse' as result every time.

I looked after an overridable event that would raise when the control changes its state - like the syncChanges / applyChanges events in the editorpart

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You can hook up to the WebPartManager's DisplayModeChanging and DisplayModeChanged.

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I am keeping the manager in design mode - however, now I am seeing the zone titles displayed and I don't want this to be the case.

This is not happening for my instance of WebPartZone, but it is occurring with a subclass I have created. I created the subclass to encapsulate a WebPartZone with styles I need to use over and over again.

Is there a property I need to set?

Here's my code. I commented out the hacks I tried to get this working. I also tried overriding RenderHeader and not implementing anything but alas, to no avail.

public class USWebPartZone : WebPartZone
{

public USWebPartZone()
{
this.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
this.MinimizeVerb.ImageUrl = "images/icon_minimize.gif";
this.RestoreVerb.ImageUrl = "images/icon_maximize.gif";
this.CloseVerb.ImageUrl = "images/icon_close.gif";
this.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None;
//this.HeaderStyle.Height = new Unit(0);
//this.HeaderStyle.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Blue;

// Eliminate black box around web parts
this.PartChromeStyle.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None;
this.PartTitleStyle.Height = new Unit(0);

// Format title bar
this.PartTitleStyle.CssClass = "boxheader";
this.PartTitleStyle.Font.Bold = true;
this.PartTitleStyle.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(0xffffff);
this.PartTitleStyle.Font.Names = new string[] { "Arial", "Verdana" };
this.PartTitleStyle.Font.Size = new FontUnit("8pt");

// Format content area of web part
this.PartStyle.CssClass = "box";
this.PartStyle.BorderWidth = new Unit(1);
this.PartStyle.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Solid;
this.PartStyle.CellPadding = 5;
this.PartStyle.BorderColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(0xCCCCCC);
}

protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
//this.HeaderText = "Yadda";
base.Render(writer);
}

}

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There are 2 solutions that may work for you:

1. Override RenderHeader() and don't render anything. If you still can't get this to work for you, please post a repro so I can investigate.

2. Override the DisplayTitle property to return String.Empty.

-Mike

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Mike:

I tried both overriding RenderHeader() with no body to the method and returning string.Empty from the overloaded DisplayTitle property.

I don't get a title but there is extra space at the top, so it does not align with the next <td> cell, which contains the original WebPartZone.

For your investigations:

1) Add these two methods to my previous post to get the complete class definition for my USWebPartZone:

protected override void RenderHeader(HtmlTextWriter writer) {}
public override string DisplayTitle { get { return string.Empty; } }

2) Here is how I am using my zone in my aspx file:

<td style="width: 35%; height: 21px" valign="top">
<!-- This cell contain the left hand side WebZone -->
<cc1:USWebPartZone ID="USWebPartZone2" Runat="server">
<ZoneTemplate>
....

the next cell has a traditional webpartzone:

<td style="width: 65%; height: 21px" valign="top">
<WebPartZone ID="MessageZone" Runat="server" Width="100%">
<ZoneTemplate>
....

3) HTML Output with manager in DEFAULT mode, down to the row which is the title bar for the first web part:

<!-- This cell contain the left hand side WebZone -->
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="ctl00_Content_USWebPartZone2" style="background-color:White;">
<tr>
<td style="height:100%;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" style="width:100%;height:100%;">
<tr>
<td><table class="aspnet_s0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" id="WebPart_InboxWebPart" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td class="boxheader aspnet_s3"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" id="WebPartTitle_InboxWebPart" style="width:100%;"><span class="aspnet_s2">Inbox</span>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>


4) DESIGN mode output, and goes down to the same point in the code.

<!-- This cell contain the left hand side WebZone -->
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="ctl00_Content_USWebPartZone2" style="background-color:White;">
<tr>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap"></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr><tr>
<td style="height:100%;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" style="width:100%;height:100%;border-color:Gray;border-width:1px;border-style:None;">
<tr>
<td style="padding-top:1;padding-bottom:1;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:100%;border-left:solid 3px Blue;border-right:solid 3px Blue;visibility:hidden;">
<tr>
<td style="font-size:0px;"><div style="margin:2px 0px 2px 0px;height:2px;width:100%;background-color:Blue;">

</div></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr><tr>
<td><table class="aspnet_s0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" id="WebPart_InboxWebPart" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td class="boxheader aspnet_s3"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" id="WebPartTitle_InboxWebPart" style="width:100%;"><span class="aspnet_s2">Inbox</span>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
Larry

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If you are talking about the "box" with a gray border around the Webpart, you can remove it by overriding the RenderBody method of the WebPartZone class. But if you leave this empty, not WebParts will be displayed. You have to render the webpart:

For example:

protected override void RenderBody(HtmlTextWriter writer)


{


      ....





      foreach (WebPart webpart in this.WebParts)


      {


           this.CreateWebPartChrome().RenderWebPart(writer, webpart);


      }





     ....


}

If you want to change the way the Webpart are rendered (if it should have border, and how the order should look like etc), you can create your own WebPartChrome class by inherits the WebPartChrome class and override the CreateWebPartChrome method and make it return you chrome.

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Hi

In the properties for the webzone set the headertext to at blank space (yes its a bad solution but i does the job). Now the title of the webzon has gone.

Then set the borderstyle to "NotSet" or "None"

Thats it. the extra space caused by the designview has been reduced - at least.