DockManager Properties

The component that allows you to create docked, floating and/or auto-hidden dock panels inside a form or user control. See Docking Library.

Name	Description
ActivePanel	Gets or sets the active dock panel.
ActivePanelID	Gets or sets the index of the active dock panel.
AllowGlyphSkinning	Gets or sets whether all DockPanels within the DockManager should paint their icons in the panel’s foreground colors.
AutoHiddenPanelCaptionShowMode	Gets or sets how panel captions are displayed within an auto-hide container when these panels are combined into an auto-hidden tab container.
AutoHiddenPanelShowMode	Gets or sets whether auto-hidden panels within the current DockManager are shown during mouse hover, or only during a mouse click.
AutoHideContainers	Provides access to the auto hide containers and thus to the panels whose auto hide functionality is enabled.
AutoHideSpeed	Gets or sets the auto-hide animation speed for dock panels.
CanRaiseEvents protected	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.
DesignMode protected	Gets a value that indicates whether the Component is currently in design mode. Inherited from Component.
DockController	Gets an IDockController that performs docking operations on panels within the current DockManager.
DockingOptions	Provides access to the settings that affect the behavior of dock panels.
DockMode	Gets or sets the dock style.
DockModeVS2005FadeFramesCount	Gets or sets the number of frames in the fading animation effect that are applied when displaying dock visualizers (markers) in VS2005 dock style.
DockModeVS2005FadeSpeed	Gets or sets a value that specifies the speed of fade effects.
DocumentManager	Gets a DocumentManager associated with this DockManager.
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.
HiddenPanels	Provides access to a collection of hidden dock panels.
Images	Gets or sets the image source whose images are used by dock panels.
IsDeserializing	Indicates whether the docking layout is being loaded.
IsInitialized	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.
LayoutVersion	Gets or sets the version of the layout of dock windows.
MenuManager	Gets or sets an object that controls the look and feel of the DockManager‘s popup menus.
Panels	Provides access to all the dock panels owned by the dock manager.
RootPanels	Provides access to the collection of visible panels which are not owned by other panels.
SerializationInProgress	This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
SerializationOptions	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 DockManager.
ToolTipController	Gets or sets the tooltip controller component that controls the appearance, position and content of the hints displayed by the dock panels.
TopZIndexControls	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.
ValidateDockPanelOnDeactivate	Gets or sets whether the Validate method is forcibly called on a dock panel when switching from this dock panel to another one.
ValidateFloatFormChildrenOnDeactivate	Gets or sets whether a float dock panel’s controls are validated when the panel is deactivated.
ValidateFormChildrenOnDeactivate	Gets or sets whether the ValidateChildren method is forcibly called on a DockManager parent Form when switching from one dock panel to another.
XtraSerializableScreenConfiguration	This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code.