CS3 floating palette title renaming.

I'm having a problem dynamically renaming the title ( tab ) of one of my palettes at run-time. In CS2 this was quite simple since the tab area of a palette was accessible through the widget hierarchy ( i.e. kTabAreaWidgetID & kPanelTabWidgetID ).
Since the move to CS3 this is no longer the case. My panel is wrapped in a
kOWLHostedTabAwarePalettePanelWrapperBoss which itself is contained within another level of hierarchy ( the palette itself which contains the tab and menu widgets ). This top level of hierarchy seems to be shrouded in mystery since it does not show up in the "Panel Edit Mode" of the debug build of InDesign.
I can navigate the hierarchy of the panels using the 'PaletteRef' object and
PaletteRefUtils, but after the palette is create there does not seem to be any way of changing the title.
TIA
Mike.

Hi
This code works for us:
InterfacePtr<IApplication> app(gSession->QueryApplication());
InterfacePtr<IPanelMgr> panelMgr(app->QueryPanelManager());
IControlView* panelControlView = panelMgr->GetPanelFromWidgetID(panelWidgetID);
PaletteRef palRef = panelMgr->GetPaletteRefContainingPanel(panelControlView);
#if MACINTOSH
CFStringRef cfTitle = <your new title>;
SetControlTitleWithCFString(palRef.GetOWLControl(), cfTitle);
#else
SetWindowText(palRef.GetOWLControl(), "New title");
#endif
Charles

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