BaseView.BeginFloating Event

Fires when an end-user starts to drag a docked document, so that it is transformed into a floating window.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraBars.Docking2010.Views

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraBars.v19.2.dll

Declaration

C#

public event DocumentCancelEventHandler BeginFloating

VB.NET

Public Event BeginFloating As DocumentCancelEventHandler

Event Data

The BeginFloating event's data class is DocumentCancelEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property	Description
Cancel	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the event should be canceled. Inherited from CancelEventArgs.
Document	The Document related to the current event.

Remarks

You can prevent a document from becoming a floating window with the IBaseDocumentDefaultProperties.AllowFloat/IBaseDocumentProperties.AllowFloat properties or by handling the BeginFloating event. To prevent a document from becoming floating when handling the event, set the event’s Cancel parameter to true.

The BeginFloating event is not raised when an end-user invokes the “Float” command from a document’s context menu. To change the context menu, you can handle the BaseView.PopupMenuShowing event.

When an end-user starts to drag a docked document, the following events raise in the following order:

1. BeginFloating (when the docked document is about to become floating).
2. BaseView.Floating (after this document becomes floating).
3. BaseView.EndFloating (after the mouse button is released and this document is dropped).

By default, documents within a NativeMdiView can be dragged only within the View’s bounds. These documents are considered as “docked”. When you make a document floating within a NativeMdiView via the IBaseViewController.Float method, the document can be dragged outside the View. To “dock” a document back to a NativeMdiView, so it can be dragged only within the View’s bounds, call the IBaseViewController.Dock method.