Panes Overview Summary View Of Pane Types (and Relationships) Panes are containers that are the basic building blocks for the WinDockManager™ component. A Pane is a specific type of window that can contain other windows, including other panes. Much of the functionality of the WinDockManager derives from the variou...
Pin and Unpin a Window Using the WinDockManager™ component, a window that is pinned can be unpinned, so as to hide it. Likewise, a window that is hidden and flies out on a mouseover can be pinned, so that it is always visible. A window can be pinned and unpinned in code, or by the user at run-time. The following c...
Prevent the Navigator from Being Displayed If you do not want the WinDockManager’s™ Navigator to display when the user presses Ctrl-Tab, set the Enabled property under NavigatorSettings to False. Setting the Enabled property to False only disables the Navigator from the user (Ctrl-Tab). Even if this property is se...
WinDockManager Resource Strings Reference You can quickly and easily modify any resource string value that is displayed to a user by a control/component. Resource strings include items such as dialog box captions, warning messages, alerts, etc. The following table lists the names of the resource strings that are u...
Save and Load Dock Settings WinDockManager™ can save and reload the location and docked status of the various windows in your application. This can be used to maintain a user’s personalized settings. To load dock settings at run-time use the following code. In Visual Basic: In C#: To save dock settings at run-time...
Show or Hide the Preview in the Navigator You can display the WinDockManager™ control’s Navigator in three different styles by setting the NavigatorStyle property. Both the Visual Studio 2008 Windows® XP and Vista™ styles include a preview area of the selected window. However, by default, the Visual Studio 2005 st...
Show the Navigator Programmatically This topic will help you display the WinDockManager’s™ Navigator using code at run time. You may wish to do this if you are using a dialog box to prompt a user to select a certain opened file. You may also want to do this if the key combination used to display the navigator, Ctr...
WinDockManager Smart Tag In Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0), each Ultimate UI for Windows Forms control/component is equipped with a Smart Tag. By simply selecting the control/component, a Smart Tag anchor appears. When you click this anchor, a pop-up panel appears, providing you with quick and easy access...
Understanding WinDockManager This is a great place for you to start learning about the WinDockManager™ component, and its key features and functionalities. The topics in this section will give you a better idea of why you would want to use WinDockManager in your applications. Click the links below to gain an overv...
Visual Studio .NET 2005-Style Docking A new LayeredWindowWithIndicators value off the DragWindowStyle Enumeration lets you enable the WinDockManager™ to display Visual Studio .NET 2005-style Docking Indicators when you drag a dockable pane or group. While dragging, if the mouse hovers over a docking indicator (e.g...