Floating windows

[Razvan Herdea]

So far when the user sets windows as floating, the whole application (all open floating windows and the parent form) show up when the user clicks on one of them.

Is it possible to have a setup in which only a certain window comes on top?

Thank you,

Razvan

[Rajasekar B]

Hi Razvan,

When the window is made to float, it will be shown on the top. So all the floating windows will be displayed on the top. This is the behavior of the floating window.

If you want to show any particular window, you can hide other windows using,
dockingManager.SetDockVisibility(ctrl,false);

And show it using,
dockingManager.SetDockVisibility(ctrl,true);

If you want to access all the docked controls, you can use
IEnumerator dockedControls = dockingManager.Controls;

It will return an enumerator. So you can iterate through the docked controls collection. Let me know if you have nay question.

Thanks,
Rajasekar

[Razvan Herdea]

Rajasekar,

Thanks for your answer. I still wanted a solution to my problem and I found the one below. When the control is floated, in the associated event I change it's "frame" to behave as an independent window. Do you think this may cause any problems? So far seems to be OK. it even allows the user to re-dock the control.

Regards,

Razvan


private void dockManager_DockStateChanged(object sender, Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockStateChangeEventArgs arg)
{
foreach (Control ctrl in arg.Controls)
{
if (this.dockManager.IsFloating(ctrl))
{
//when floating make it look like a regular form, with no parent
FloatingForm form = (FloatingForm)((DockHost)ctrl.Parent).ParentForm;
form.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.Sizable;
form.Owner = null;
form.ShowInTaskbar = true;
form.BringToFront();
form.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal;
}
}

}

[Rajasekar B]

Hi Razvan,

Changing the frame for the floating window will not cause any problem. But the caption text will overlap the icon. You can make the icon invisble by

form.ShowIcon=false;

Let me know if you have any question.

Thanks,
Rajasekar