Questions tagged [docking]

A user interface design in which panels are arranged inside a container. Each docked panel is attached to another panel or a side of the container.

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User Control Docking Attribute

I am trying to make my own user control and have almost finished it, just trying to add some polish. I would like the option in the designer to "Dock in parent container". Does anyone know how to do this I can't find an example. I think it has…
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.Net Control to do Google Chrome Docking

I like the way that Google Chrome allows you to grab tabs out of a window to create additional windows. Does any one know if there is way to do this style of docking and undocking in my .Net application? Or better yet does any one know if there is a…
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Tabbed document interface in Delphi

I'm considering different user interface layouts for my next project and I was wondering if there are either integrated or 3rd party frameworks which allow me to create tabbed document interface? To clarify, what I want is not some kind of docking…
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Docking a StatusStrip control on Bottom and a Panel on Right in an MDI Form?

I have a MDI parent form as the main window of my application. Within this Form I also have two other Control a Panel and a StatusStrip which are docked to the Right and Bottom respectively. My issue is that the StatusStrip does not "fill" the…
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Free docking controls that can be docked into third party app

I have a application(not mine) that uses AxXtremeDockingPane by CodeJock to add dockable panels to the application. AxXtremeDockingPane has a method called AttachToWindow(int handle) which when called will create a docking manger into the window…
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Z Order Changing When Making Docked Controls Visible

I'm using C# Winforms with the .NET Framework version 4.0 I have a panel which contains four labels all docked to the top of the panel. The middle two labels are hidden. ---Top--- Label One (Visible) Label Two - (NOT Visible) Label Three (NOT…
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Any easy way to store dock windows' layout and sizes in settings with Qt?

I have a main window with some internal dockable windows. I can move, resize and redock those dockable windows. After close and reopen the program, I want the moves, sizes and redocking are kept. Any easy way to implement it? I think it will use…
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C# Panel docking issue

Windows Forms project, working only in designer (i.e. with mouse, before the compilation). I have a Form and 2 Panels in it. panel1 is docked (option - fill) in form1. panel2 is docked (fill) in form1, too. Also, panel2 is in front of panel1 (the…
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docking control similar to visual studio

Im looking for a docking control similar to visual studio. [For use in a c# program] I've played around alot with the Weifen-Luo's Docking Library, which works great but is not quite right for what i'm working on. I need to be able to dock items…
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C# docking control library

I'm looking for a docking control library for C# WinForms that works in NET 2.0, is freeware, doesn't use any P/Invokes (so that it's compatible with Mono) and isn't buggy. WeifenLuo would have been the best option here, but because it uses a ton of…
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How to implement this type of Docking?

Take a look at this Open Source Application called Construct . It uses Panel Docking where you can drag a Panel, and then some on screen visual aids to show where the Panel may be docked, as seen below: Before Dragging/Docking During…
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Error when TChart is docked

I get an AV when I dock a Form, wich contains a TChart, into another Form. The error does not occure when the AutoPaint property of the TChart is set to True. I have tested this with C++Builder XE6, XE7 and Delphi Builder XE6 with the standard…
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Floating window and Ribbon integration with keyboard navigation

I am working on an MDI application that has a ribbon and also supports docking/floating windows. I have troubles to keep the focus on the last floating window while accessing some commands on the ribbon. I have found this great post that gave me…
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Can the developer tools window of Internet Explorer 9 be docked to the main browser window?

All other current versions of browsers have some form of developer tools and are attached to the main browser window or can be "docked" to it. At least this is true on Windows 7 for Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. But for Internet…
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JVCL Docking-Docking_in_Code example - Tab Dock possible error

I am using delphi xe2 with update 4, under OS: Win7, and I want to build an application for my semestre exam that allows docking forms. Because I am a student I can`t afford to buy any docking components. So I began to learn how JVCL Docking works…
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