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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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How to make manual docking seamless / invisible?

I am trying to use docking as an alternative to embedding (related question) a TForm into a TWinControl (in this case a TTabSheet). The user shouldn't notice that there are two different forms at all. How do I avoid the close button and "drag bar"…
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How to catch AvalonDock undocking and Docking events?

I am Using AvalonDock in a WPF project. And I would like to konw how to handle the Docking and Undocking event. i have tried MouseDown and Up while Dragging but no apparent success. ...
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How can I dock one window to another in Swing?

I have two JFrames open. I have window B spawn to the right of window A, snugged up to window A's right edge. I want it to stick to and move with window A. How can I make it do this?
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How to change CDockingManager docking mode on-the-fly?

I want to be able to switch between immediate and smart docking in a MFC client application. By default DT_IMMEDIATE will be set so the dock panes will function similar to Visio. However when the user presses and holds down the Ctrl key I want to…
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Mac OSX App - How do you make a "Docking window"?

I'm building an app for Mac OSX in Objective C, and I'm wondering if there's any built in support for "docking" behavior. What I mean by this is having a main window with "slots" with other windows that can either be free floating or snap into place…
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With a custom WinForms control, can I change the rectangle that nested controls dock inside?

I am trying to create a custom control that behaves a lot like a GroupBox, but with properties for changing the border color, changing the group label text color, and hiding the group label. The control inherits directly from UserControl, and…
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Docking framework for Eclipse Forms/SWT

I have a few composites in an Eclipse editor, and the user would like to resize, maximize, restore, and move those composites around in the editor, as if each of those was a portlet. Is there a toolkit for doing this, or is it something that I'll…
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WPF Docking Control Recommendation

Is there a Docking control that does a good job and provide good options for ReSizing? I want some docked windows to be of fixed width/Height and others to resize. Most of the Docking controls I have tried, doesn't provide good option to set…
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CSS for docking/sliding panel on a web page

I would like to display any validation error messages on a web form similar to compilation error messages in visual studio that slides up from the bottom when there are errors. the error message panel should overlay on top of the form without taking…
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AvalonDock autohide to side of pane instead of window

I have the following AvalonDock XAML: …
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Control docking not working correctly in Visual C#

Here's what I did: Place a TextBox control Set its Multiline property to True, and its Dock property to Fill Place a Button control (also works with a ToolStrip, which is docked at the top by default, and many other controls) Set its Dock property…
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Disable floating tabs visual studio 2012

Is there a way to disable floating tabs in Visual Studio 2012? I am flicking back and forth between the xaml and code-behind windows and another application, and every now and then the code-behind window decides to de-dock itself. It may be due to…
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Adding/Docking controls in UserControl C# .NET

I am writing a UserControl which adds child controls programmatically. Currently I am adding new controls like so: this.Controls.Add(new Control() { Height = 16, Dock = DockStyle.Top }); The problem I am experiencing is that new controls are added…
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How to dock a child control to bottom right of the parent control?

How do i dock a child control at a bottom right position when compared to the parent control? I can see that the dockstyle enum has values for None,Top,Bottom,Right,Left and Fill ... How can i set for Bottom right ???
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define a page control as a jvcl dockserver.custom dock panel. is it possible?

I have a main form with a left panel and in the center of the form I have a page control..and I am trying to dock other forms on the page control, as I have seen on an example made by Alister Christie; the thing is that the dragging of forms into…
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