Ever been frustrated that the tool pane in SharePoint takes up your screen real estate, or that you have to scroll to see the buttons when editing a WebPart? ... If so, this is for you...
Following on from my previous post (which got a bit too long to mention this) the SharePoint controls include another useful addition...a floating toolpane for SharePoint. With two lines added to you site master page you can have all your tool panes appear in a floating window which is sizeable and can be minimized!
The floating toolpane will work with existing sites and any webpart. The functionality can be added and removed with just two lines of code in the master page.
Simply download the setup and run setup.exe. You then need to add the following lines to your SharePoint master page.
Declare the namespace...
<%@ Register Tagprefix="TKC" Namespace="TheKid.SharePoint.Controls" Assembly="TheKid.SharePoint.Controls, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b7df110f7f24925e" %>
Add the control...
<TKC:FloatingToolPane runat="server"/>
I would suggest adding the FloatingToolPane control after the SPWebPartManager, but anywhere within the layout should be OK.
More details about other controls within TheKid.SharePoint.Controls namespace and the setup can be found in the post 'SharePoint 2007 WebParts & Publishing Controls'.
UPDATE: A number of people have reported problems with this control. I have posted a workaround, which also includes more implementation details.