Disable float in docking window

[Ries Vriend]

Hi,

I'm currently developing an app with a tabbed MDIContainer main form with a number of docking windows on it.

I have not yet figured out how to accomplish the following effects:

• Disable the floating dock-state. We always want the docked controls docked and not floating.
• Specify a minimum visible height or width for a docked control. We want the control displaying the 'dynamic help' to be always fixed to the bottom border of the form and visible to novice users. I still would like to make it a docking control as opposed to a plain panel and a splitter, as making it docked integrates better in the look-and-feel of the other docked windows on the form (splitter border style, caption bar, etc.).

Any ideas?

Ries

[Prakash S]

Ries,

The docking windows implemenation does not have the functionality for disabling the float capability; similar to the VS.NET IDE it only has the capability for disabling docking.

Unfortunately, at present, it does not have the functionality to provide a minimum/restricted sizing.

I have filed a request and we will do our best to provide these features in a future version of Essential Tools.

Regards,

Prakash
Syncfusion, Inc.,

[Arif Momin]

Ries,
Try this as a workaround. In the DockStateChanged event of the docking manager, use the following code:
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if(dmMenu.IsFloating(pnMenu))
{
dmMenu.DockControl(this.pnMenu, this, Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockingStyle.Left, pnMenu.Width);
}
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NOTE:
dmMenu is an instance of DockingManager class
pnMenu is an instance of Panel class

ARif.

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently developing an app with a tabbed MDIContainer main form with a number of docking windows on it.
>
> I have not yet figured out how to accomplish the following effects:
>
> • Disable the floating dock-state. We always want the docked controls docked and not floating.
> • Specify a minimum visible height or width for a docked control. We want the control displaying the 'dynamic help' to be always fixed to the bottom border of the form and visible to novice users. I still would like to make it a docking control as opposed to a plain panel and a splitter, as making it docked integrates better in the look-and-feel of the other docked windows on the form (splitter border style, caption bar, etc.).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ries
>

[Ries Vriend]

Hi,

I've found a workaround for this by deriving from DockingManager, see attachment. Causes some screen flicker but it retains the current position of the window that was undocked.

-Ries