Dockable windows wpf

Bring the overflow tabs into view through scroll options in the UI. Scroll to the next, previous, first, or last tabs. Display docking guides to indicate the valid drop location for docking panels while dragging the float window.

Also customize the appearance of the docking guides. Improve the user experience with a built-in context menu. It helps users float, close, pin, and move the dock window to a tabbed document and more. Built-in serialization options support saving a dock layout upon closing and restoring it upon opening the application in different formats.

Users can create nested docking layouts with docked windows inside other docked windows, or directly dock them to the main form.

Easily drag the child windows from one docking manager to another by linking different docking managers together. Customize the style of each part of the WPF Docking Manager, such as its dock window header style and tabs styles. Use a rich set of built-in themes inspired by popular interfaces such as Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, and Expression Blend. The WPF Docking Manager supports localization to translate the static text to any supported language.

Right-to-left RTL direction setting is available for users working in right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian. Download Free Trial. View Demos.

Community Forums. Add dockingmanager. Add contentControl. SetCanDockonFloat Item1 , false ;. Red ; SyncDockingManager. Brown ; SyncDockingManager. DarkOrchid ;. Blue ; SyncDockingManager. Orange ; SyncDockingManager. Pink ; SyncDockingManager. BlueViolet ;. SetCanDrag Item1 , false ;. ShadowDragging ;. BorderDragging ;. Absolute ;. SetState dockWindow1 , DockState. Document ; DockingManager.

SetState document1 , DockState. Normal ;. Add customMenuItem1 ; menu2. Add customMenuItem2 ; menu2. Add menu1 ; dockingManager. Add menu2 ;. Add item1 ; collection. Add item2 ; DockingManager. VS ;. You have to so it via models and interfaces. When you create the document view model, pass it an interface that is implemented by the main app.

When you click on the document view, the handler will invoke a method on that interface. That method will set a property on the model for the tool view. That property will store the text to be displayed in the tool view. Hi Leif, great library! Thank you for sharing it! Thank you in advance! Cheers Alfred. As I understand it that would not be feasible, and even if it was, it would be a huge job.

WPF makes this a doable project. I See. Thanks a lot. Great Library Deltrion Ways Jan Deltrion Ways. I must have a closer look to it, definitively!

Until now I only had a look to the examples and there I could crash the TabHeaderControlDemo when clicking and holding a tab and then move around like a drag trying to resort tabs : Copy Code mainViewModel.

SelectedItem as ViewModel. TabHeaderItem returned null. Member My knowledge of C is very limited. C and WPF have loads of powerful and free libraries. Rewrite your code in C , it should be fairly easy albeit a bit tedious and time consuming.

Thank you. I will think again about my prejudices against C. General usage Sergey Alexeenko 9-Dec Sergey Alexeenko. First of all - thanks for the excellent component! I can't find sample of how to set initial dock side for tool windows. Re: General usage Sergey Alexeenko Dec Hi Sergey I am sort of alive.

I am having problems updating this document with recent changes due to bugs in the Code Project interface. I will have a look a your question, once I have sorted out bugs in several articles. Hi , Firstly , thanks for your library that is really filling a gap! I just tried the demo but cannot get the demo2 working correctly. It's running but if I'm selecting a layout, it's throwing an exception unable to load layout. And nice to see that you created a github repo!

Regards, Yann. Re: problem with Demo2 sample? Hi Yann, I'm glad you like it. I can't reproduce your issue. Where did you get the code from? GitHub or the ZIP file with this article? Are you running the releasr or debug build, and debugging or just running? Does it happen with every layout? Is this one of the example layouts, or one you created using maybe the demo 1 app? I get the zip file from this article. I compiler using VS It appears in debug and release profile , trying to debug or launching directly the produced executable.

And with all the provided layouts. The full message is 'Unable to load layout: Le format de la chaine d'entree est incorrect' It's partially in french , could be translated to 'unable to load layout: input string format is incorrect'. Can you debug through and see the line where it blows up?

Maybe a localisation issue if you are using French Windows. That makes sense, not taking into account localisation was a serious bug! Thanks again. NuGet Package Member Nov Is there any way to be able to dock this window into the view the view will rearrange the UI to accomodate the docked window , but also get the window out of the view if you want to move the window around? Saturday, February 28, PM. Sunday, March 1, AM. Personally, I find multiple windows a right nuisance.

Users get confused very easily and losing a window behind others is all too easy.