DockManager Members
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#Constructors
Name | Description |
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Dock |
Initializes a new instance of the Dock |
Dock |
Initializes a new instance of the Dock |
Dock |
Initializes a new instance of the Dock |
#Properties
Name | Description |
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Active |
Gets or sets the active dock panel. |
Active |
Gets or sets the index of the active dock panel. |
Allow |
Gets or sets whether all Dock |
Auto |
Gets or sets how panel captions are displayed within an auto-hide container when these panels are combined into an auto-hidden tab container. |
Auto |
Gets or sets whether auto-hidden panels within the current Dock |
Auto |
Provides access to the auto hide containers and thus to the panels whose auto hide functionality is enabled. |
Auto |
Gets or sets the auto-hide animation speed for dock panels. |
Can |
Gets a value indicating whether the component can raise an event. Inherited from Component. |
Container | Gets the IContainer that contains the Component. Inherited from Component. |
Controller | Gets or sets the bar and dock controller that provides the default appearance options for the dock panels belonging to the current dock manager. |
Count | Gets the total number of panels that belong to the dock manager. |
Design |
Gets a value that indicates whether the Component is currently in design mode. Inherited from Component. |
Dock |
Gets an IDock |
Docking |
Provides access to the settings that affect the behavior of dock panels. |
Dock |
Gets or sets the dock style. |
Dock |
Gets or sets the number of frames in the fading animation effect that are applied when displaying dock visualizers (markers) in VS2005 dock style. |
Dock |
Gets or sets a value that specifies the speed of fade effects. |
Document |
Gets a Document |
Events protected | Gets the list of event handlers that are attached to this Component. Inherited from Component. |
Form | Gets or sets the container control (form or user control) which displays the dock panels owned by the current dock manager. |
Hidden |
Provides access to a collection of hidden dock panels. |
Images | Gets or sets the image source whose images are used by dock panels. |
Is |
Indicates whether the docking layout is being loaded. |
Is |
Indicates whether the dock manager has been initialized. |
Item[Int32] | Provides indexed access to the panels which belong to the dock manager. |
Item[String] | Provides indexed access to the panels which belong to the dock manager by their names. |
Layout |
Gets or sets the version of the layout of dock windows. |
Menu |
Gets or sets an object that controls the look and feel of the Dock |
Panels | Provides access to all the dock panels owned by the dock manager. |
Root |
Provides access to the collection of visible panels which are not owned by other panels. |
Serialization |
This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. |
Serialization |
Provides options which control how a layout of dock panels is stored to/restored from a data store (a stream, xml file or system registry). |
Site | Gets or sets the ISite of the Component. Inherited from Component. |
Style |
Gets or sets the style for all panels owned by this Dock |
Tool |
Gets or sets the tooltip controller component that controls the appearance, position and content of the hints displayed by the dock panels. |
Top |
Gets the string collection that stores the full names of the controls which have the top (high) indexes in the z-order and thus are positioned closest to the form’s edges. |
Validate |
Gets or sets whether the Validate method is forcibly called on a dock panel when switching from this dock panel to another one. |
Validate |
Gets or sets whether a float dock panel’s controls are validated when the panel is deactivated. |
Validate |
Gets or sets whether the Validate |
Xtra |
This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. |
#Methods
Name | Description |
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About() static | Activates the dock manager’s About dialog box. |
Add |
Docks the specified panel to the Dock |
Add |
Creates a new dock panel and docks it to the form (user control) using the specified dock style. |
Add |
Creates a new dock panel and floats it at the specified point. |
Add |
Creates a new panel and docks it to the required position. |
Add |
Creates a new floating panel with the target content. |
Begin |
Notifies the component that the initialization has started. |
Begin |
Locks the Dock |
Clear() | Destroys all panels. |
Create |
Creates an object that contains all the relevant information required to generate a proxy used to communicate with a remote object.
Inherited from Marshal |
Create |
Creates a helper object that manages dock visualizers for the VS2005 dock style. |
Dispose() | Releases all resources used by the Component. Inherited from Component. |
End |
Notifies the control that the initialization has been completed. |
End |
Unlocks the Dock |
Equals |
Determines whether the specified object instances are considered equal. Inherited from Object. |
Equals |
Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. Inherited from Object. |
Force |
Forces the dock manager to finish its initialization. |
Get |
Returns the panel located under the specified point. |
Get |
Serves as the default hash function. Inherited from Object. |
Get |
Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance.
Inherited from Marshal |
Get |
This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. |
Get |
Returns an object that represents a service provided by the Component or by its Container. Inherited from Component. |
Get |
Gets the Type of the current instance. Inherited from Object. |
Initialize |
Obtains a lifetime service object to control the lifetime policy for this instance.
Inherited from Marshal |
Lock |
This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. |
Memberwise |
Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. Inherited from Object. |
Memberwise |
Creates a shallow copy of the current Marshal |
Reference |
Determines whether the specified Object instances are the same instance. Inherited from Object. |
Remove |
Destroys the specified panel. |
Replace |
Call this method to change the Dock |
Restore |
Restores the layout stored at the specified system registry path to the dock panels. |
Restore |
Restores the layout in the specified stream to the dock panels. |
Restore |
Restores the layout of dock controls from the specified XML file. |
Restore |
Restores the layout of dock panels from the specified system registry path. |
Restore |
Restores the layout of dock panels from the specified stream. |
Restore |
Restores the layout of dock panels from the specified XML file. |
Save |
Saves the layout of dock panels to the specified system registry path. |
Save |
Saves the layout of dock panels to a stream. |
Save |
Saves the layout of dock panels to an XML file. |
Save |
Saves the layout of the dock panels to the registry. |
Save |
Saves the layout of dock panels to a stream. |
Save |
Saves the layout of dock panels to an XML file. |
To |
Returns a String containing the name of the Component, if any. This method should not be overridden. Inherited from Component. |
#Events
Name | Description |
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Active |
Fires after the panel’s active child has been changed. |
Active |
Fires after the active dock panel has been changed. |
Before |
Occurs before a layout is restored from storage (a stream, xml file or the system registry). |
Closed |
Occurs after a panel has been closed. |
Closing |
Occurs when a panel is closing. |
Collapsed |
Occurs when any auto-hide Dock |
Collapsing |
Occurs when any auto-hide Dock |
Create |
Fires after an auto hide container has been created. |
Create |
Allows you to prevent dock panels from being resized using the mouse at specific borders and corners. |
Destroy |
Fires before an auto hide container has been destroyed. |
Disposed | Occurs when the component is disposed by a call to the Dispose() method. Inherited from Component. |
Docking | Fires repeatedly while a dock panel is being dragged. |
End |
Fires immediately after a docking operation on a dock panel has finished. |
End |
Fires after a resize operation on a dock panel has finished. |
Expanded |
Occurs when any auto-hide Dock |
Expanding |
Occurs when any auto-hide Dock |
Layout |
Occurs after a layout whose version doesn’t match the current layout’s version has been loaded from storage (a stream, xml file or system registry). |
Load | Fires after the docking layout has been loaded. |
Popup |
Occurs when a context menu is about to be displayed. |
Register |
Occurs when a new panel is registered within the dock manager. |
Restore |
Occurs when a saved layout is invalid and cannot be restored. Allows you to fix restore layout exceptions. |
Showing |
Occurs when an end-user drags a Dock |
Sizing | Fires when the dock panel is being resized. |
Start |
Fires when a docking operation starts. |
Start |
Enables specifying whether end-users can resize the dock panels. |
Tabbed |
Occurs when a panel’s Dock |
Tabs |
Fires after a dock panel’s Dock |
Tabs |
Occurs when a panel’s Dock |
Unregister |
Occurs when a panel is removed from the dock manager. |
Visibility |
Fires after the visible state of any dock panel owned by the dock manager has been changed. |
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