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OptionsView Properties

Contains options that determine the control’s display options
Name Description
AllowExpandAnimation Gets or sets whether layout groups are collapsed/expanded using animation.
AllowGlyphSkinning Gets or sets whether icons for all layout items within the current LayoutControl should be painted in the items’ foreground colors.
AllowHotTrack Gets or sets whether layout item borders are highlighted when the mouse cursor hovers over the layout items.
AllowItemSkining Obsolete. This option is equivalent to the OptionsView.AllowItemSkinning option.
AllowItemSkinning Gets or sets whether the OptionsView.DrawItemBorders, OptionsView.HighlightDisabledItem and OptionsView.HighlightFocusedItem options are in effect.
AllowLockSizeIndicators Gets or sets whether or not lock size indicators should be displayed during the runtime customization.
AllowScaleControlsToDisplayResolution Obsolete. This property is now obsolete. Use the OptionsView.UseParentAutoScaleFactor property instead.
AllowTransparentBackColor Obsolete. Allows the parent’s background to be seen through the LayoutControl.
AlwaysScrollActiveControlIntoView Gets or sets whether focusing a control that is out of view automatically scrolls the LayoutControl to make this control visible.
AutoSizeInLayoutControl Gets or sets how a LayoutControl’s size is changed when it is positioned within another LayoutControl.
AutoSizeModeInLayoutControl Obsolete. Gets or sets how a LayoutControl’s size is changed when it’s positioned within another LayoutControl.
ControlDefaultMaxSizeCalcMode Gets or sets how default maximum size constraints are calculated for controls that implement the IXtraResizableControl interface.
DragFadeAnimationFrameCount Gets or sets the number of frames in the fade animation.
DragFadeAnimationSpeed Gets or sets the fade animation length.
DrawAdornerLayer Gets or sets whether to draw an adorner layer that is used to provide customization visual cues.
DrawAdornerLayered Obsolete. Gets or sets whether to draw an adorner layer used to provide customization visual cues.
DrawItemBorders Gets or sets whether layout item borders are visible at runtime.
EnableIndentsInGroupsWithoutBorders Gets or sets whether a layout group’s indents, specified by its BaseLayoutItem.Spacing and BaseLayoutItem.Padding properties, are applied when the group’s borders are hidden.
EnableTransparentBackColor Allows the parent’s background to be seen through the LayoutControl.
ExpandAnimationSpeed Gets or sets the collapse/expand animation speed.
FitControlsToDisplayAreaHeight Gets or sets whether controls are fitted to fill the entire height of the LayoutControl.
FitControlsToDisplayAreaWidth Gets or sets whether controls are fitted to fill the entire width of the LayoutControl.
GroupStyle Gets or sets the default group border and caption paint style.
HighlightDisabledItem Gets or sets whether disabled layout items are highlighted according to the current skin.
HighlightFocusedItem Gets or sets whether focused layout items are highlighted according to the current skin.
IsReadOnly Gets or sets whether the layout control is read-only.
ItemBorderColor Gets or sets the color used to paint layout item borders when they are visible.
PaddingSpacingMode This member supports the internal infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
RightToLeftMirroringApplied Gets or sets whether the RightToLeft setting has been changed.
ShareLookAndFeelWithChildren Determines whether the LayoutControl manages the look and feel and style settings of DevExpress .NET controls that are displayed within the LayoutControl.
UseDefaultDragAndDropRendering Gets or sets whether to use the default paint mechanism to indicate drag-and-drop operations.
UseParentAutoScaleFactor Gets or sets whether indents between elements in the LayoutControl are automatically adjusted, based on the owning container’s auto-scale settings.
UseSkinIndents Gets or sets whether padding settings (BaseLayoutItem.Padding and BaseLayoutItem.Spacing) of items and groups are obtained from the current skin. This is a backward compatibility option.
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