Redrawing the title bar when using the docking manager

[Edward Khoze]

Hi guys

Is it possible to change the appearance of the topmost title bar when using the DockingManager, for example to draw a button on it or something. Something similar to maybe a ProvideGraphicsItems event, which we already override to change the color of this title bar.

Thanks in advance

Ed

[Murugan]

Hi Ed,

Thank you for using Syncfusion products.

By customizing DockingManager, DockHost and Captionpainter classes we could achieve this. Herewith I have attached the sample. Please refer the sample and let me know if it helps you.

Custom button draw

Regards,
Murugan P.S

[Edward Khoze]

Hi Murugan

Thank you for your prompt reply. I'm currently faced with another couple of issues:

Is there any way to determine on which control you are painting on (in case i've got several controls attached to the DockingManager) inside the PaintCaption method, so I can draw on some, but not on others?

And another question: Also when using the DockingManager, is there any way, when the controls are on top of each other (tabbed), to actually make those tabs invisible?

Cheers

Ed

[Edward Khoze]

Anyone? I really need the answers to those questions, cos this piece of work I'm doing now is quite urgent.

Thanks

Ed

[Murugan]

Hi Ed,

We are really sorry for the delay in responding. In PaintCaption method using this.dhcOwner.HostControl.Controls[0] we could get the current painted control. To hide the tabs in Docking please refer to the following code snippet

private void dockingManager1_DockStateChanged(object sender, Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockStateChangeEventArgs arg)
{
foreach ( Control ctrl in arg.Controls )
{
if ( this.dockingManager1.IsTabbed( ctrl ) )
{
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHost dhost = ctrl.Parent as Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHost;
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHostController dhc = dhost.InternalController as
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHostController;
if (dhc.ParentController is Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController)
{
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabControl docktab = (dhc.ParentController as
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController).TabControl;
docktab.Visible = false;
}
}
}

}

and let me know if it helps you.

Thanks,
Murugan P.S