6 Replies Latest reply: Oct 5, 2010 1:35 PM by JeffW RSS

    homesite 5.5 resource window will not dock

    borlak Community Member
      Here is a screenshot:
      http://www.borlak.org/images/homesitebr.JPG

      You'll notice the resource window (F9) is floating. It wont re-dock. A coworker has the option under View->Resource Windows->Dock all windows (or something to that effect). As you'll see in the screenshot, that doesn't exist for me. This is homesite 5.5 and I can't find any updates on it, or a fix for this.

      If I drag the window to the sides, it doesn't try to re-dock as you would expect. I've right clicked everywhere on the resource window looking for some kind of menu option - nothing. I've also tried double clicking the titlebar of the resource window (typical way of docking a window), again to no effect.

      I found the keyboard shortcut "Dock All Resource Windows" and tried several different keybinds, and it does not redock the resource window for me.

      I pretty much gave up on homesite due to this and tried a couple different editors (including dreamweaver), but after a day of use I would like to go back to homesite, but this is still bugging the heck out of me. The only thing I haven't tried is re-installing, but that is a pain in my work environment since I need admin access and it can take a while to get that done; plus that option seems a little extreme.

      Any help would be greatly appreciated;
      Michael
        • 1. Re: homesite 5.5 resource window will not dock
          Martin Jucker Community Member
          I remember I have had this problem too a while ago. As far as I know you have to fiddle with the registry - but maybe someone has a better solution. I can't see a button to attach a file here, so I show my registry-settings directly here - I hope this helps

          Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

          [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking]
          "DockPanelLeft"="211"
          "DockPanelRight"="52"
          "DockPanelTop"="80"
          "DockPanelBottom"="62"

          [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking\AllaireTabDockForm0]
          "Visible"="1"
          "AlwaysOnTop"="1"
          "Position"="3,15,205,730"
          "Floating"="0"
          "DockHost"="DockPanel_Left"
          "DockTab"="1"
          "ActivePage"="0"

          [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking\frmDockHelp]
          "Visible"="1"
          "AlwaysOnTop"="1"
          "Position"="0,0,197,694"
          "Floating"="0"
          "DockHost"="AllaireTabDockForm0"
          "PageIndex"="4"
          "DockTab"="0"

          [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking\frmDockLocalFiles]
          "Visible"="1"
          "AlwaysOnTop"="1"
          "Position"="0,0,197,694"
          "Floating"="0"
          "DockHost"="AllaireTabDockForm0"
          "PageIndex"="0"
          "DockTab"="0"

          [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking\frmDockProjects]
          "Visible"="1"
          "AlwaysOnTop"="1"
          "Position"="0,0,197,694"
          "Floating"="0"
          "DockHost"="AllaireTabDockForm0"
          "PageIndex"="1"
          "DockTab"="0"

          [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking\frmDockSiteView]
          "Visible"="1"
          "AlwaysOnTop"="1"
          "Position"="0,0,208,568"
          "Floating"="0"
          "DockHost"="AllaireTabDockForm0"
          "PageIndex"="2"
          "DockTab"="0"

          [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking\frmDockSnippets]
          "Visible"="1"
          "AlwaysOnTop"="1"
          "Position"="0,0,197,694"
          "Floating"="0"
          "DockHost"="AllaireTabDockForm0"
          "PageIndex"="3"
          "DockTab"="0"

          [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking\frmDockTagInspector]
          "Visible"="1"
          "AlwaysOnTop"="1"
          "Position"="0,0,227,568"
          "Floating"="0"
          "DockHost"="AllaireTabDockForm0"
          "PageIndex"="5"
          "DockTab"="0"
          • 2. Re: homesite 5.5 resource window will not dock
            JeffW Community Member
            see also my faq on this for how to redock it.

            Tip: Re-Docking Resource Windows
            http://www.wilk4.com/asp4hs/tips.htm#redocking_resource_windows
            • 3. Re: homesite 5.5 resource window will not dock
              charkins51 Community Member
              Thank you, thank you. This little exercise (before I found your excellent post) wasted the better part of half a day. I'll definitely be keeping your site as a bookmark for future reference. Thanks again!
              Carol
              • 4. Re: homesite 5.5 resource window will not dock
                pgael
                I'm having a similar problem with my Snippets window in Homesite 5. It used to dock in the resource window, but the snippets tab has now disappeared from the resource window and I cannot find a way to redock my snippets. The solution mentioned here will not work for me because there is no files list section in the snippets window, nor can I adjust the window to make a files list section appear.

                Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. This has been driving me crazy. :) Thanks!
                • 5. Re: homesite 5.5 resource window will not dock
                  borlak Community Member
                  did you try the registry hack the above guy mentioned?

                  I actually just got used to pressing F9 to bring up the resource window :P I found I liked having the extra space anyway.. but, looking at the registry settings he put up, those look quite promising
                  • 6. Re: homesite 5.5 resource window will not dock
                    JeffW Community Member

                    btw, I just had this problem myself.  Homesite crashed once then when I restarted everything was undocked.

                    Even though I knew from my own notes how to redock most of them, the snippets tab was a bugger.

                     

                    Oddly enough, *sometiems* the snippets tab will give you that move-to menu option to let you re-dock, but not always.  Seems related to the order you redock tabs.  Perhaps you just need to not have it be last.

                     

                    Anyway, I had to add in some of those registry values (while HomeSite was closed) to redock it.

                     

                    I'll add those details to my faq as soon as I get chance.

                     

                    One note to add to that, it seems that the DockHost value for the tabs is sometimes slightly different.

                    Mine is:

                     

                    "DockHost"="AllaireTabDockForm1"

                     

                    If you look at the keys under

                    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking\

                    you'll see that one of them is something like

                    AllaireTabDockForm0 or AllaireTabDockForm1

                     

                    The DockHost values for the tabs should match that, so when you recreate the

                    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Docking\frmDockSnippets]

                    DockHost string make sure it matches.

                     

                     

                     

                    On a related matter, I noticed that there is a registry value :

                     

                    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\ResourceTab]
                    "DockTabLock"="0"

                     

                    I vaguely recall this being something to lock all the tabs so you can't undock them.

                     

                    I can't find that in the HomeSite user interface at all.  I'll test the registry value,

                    but does anyone know how you would change it in the HS UI?

                     

                    thanks, later,

                    jeff


                    -- Jeff Wilkinson
                    volunteer for HomeSite
                    see Asp4Hs: ASP/PHP/.Net/etc Development Extensions for HomeSite
                    http://www.wilk4.com/asp4hs