Docking Manager

[Alan Barry]

Hi

I'm struggling to change the back colour of the docking manager. Currently i'm using Essential Studio 5.1.0.51. The docking manager has left pane, bottom pane and a content pane. So two splitters which are a windows system colour. The content pane includes three tabs all which i can't seem to re-colour, along with the splitters.

Any help whould be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[Administrator]

Hi Alan,

Thank you for your interest in Syncfusion Products.

You can use the following code for changing the splitter color of docked control.

[C#]

this.dockingManager1.VisualStyle = VisualStyle.Default;

foreach (DockControllerBase dcb in dockingManager1.DockAreaControllers)
{
if (dcb is DragSplitterController)
{
DragSplitterController dsc = (dcb as DragSplitterController);
DragSplitter ds = (DragSplitter)dcb.HostControl;
ds.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
}
}


You can change the caption background using dockingManager1_ProvideGraphicsItems event handler.
Please refer the below code snippet.

[C#]

void dockingManager1_ProvideGraphicsItems(object sender, Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.ProvideGraphicsItemsEventArgs arg)
{
arg.CaptionBackground = System.Drawing.Brushes.Green;
}


Please refer the below link for more information regarding the ProvideGraphicsItems event handler.
http://www2.syncfusion.com/ug_63/toolswin/ProvideGraphicsItemEvent1.html

Please refer the below sample that demonstrates this.
http://websamples.syncfusion.com//samples/Tools.Windows/F75446/main.htm

Please let me know if this helps you.

Regards,
Hema