Changing dock tabs programatically

[Paul Mason]

Hi

If you have a couple of controls docked together so that the form a tab group docked to the side of a form (using a docking manager)- is it possible to programatically change tabs?

i.e - I want to bring a docked control "to the front" if it is covered by other docked controls.

Thanks

[Prakash S]

Paul,

The Docking Windows implementation does not have a direct way for programmatically changing the selection in a tabbed docking group. However, you can do this by directly accessing the internal docking windows classes and changing the selected tab. The following code shows the approach,

// To activate the docking window tab representing the treeView1 control
	Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHost dhost = this.treeView1.Parent as Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHost;
	Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHostController dhc = dhost.InternalController as Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHostController;
	// Verify that the control is docked as a tab group
	if((dhc.ParentController != null) && (dhc.ParentController is Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController))
{				Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController dtc = dhc.ParentController as Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController;
	Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabControl tabcontrol = dtc.TabControl as Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabControl;
	Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabPage activetab = tabcontrol.SelectedTab as Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabPage;
	// Verify that the control is not the selected tab
	if(activetab.dhcClient != dhc)
	{
	    // Iterate tabpages and activate the treeview tab
	    foreach(Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabPage page in tabcontrol.TabPages)
	    {
		if(page.dhcClient == dhc)
		{
		    tabcontrol.SelectedTab = page;
		    break;
		}
	    }
	}
}

Prakash
Syncfusion, Inc.

[David Whatley]

Is this still the only way to do this?

-- David

[Prakash S]

Hi David,

Starting with v 1.1.0.0 of Essential Tools, the DockingManager has an ActivateControl(Control) method that can be used for this purpose. For more details please refer to the Class Reference documentation on this method.

Prakash
Syncfusion