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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 a value that specifies the auto-hide speed of 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.
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