Find center of docked ToolWindow

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Posted 10 years ago by James Perry
Version: 14.1.0602
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I have a button in a toolwindow which launches a smal dialog.
I want that dialog to be centered in the toolwindow.

i tried:

myDialog.Owner = Window.GetWindow(this.ToolWindow);
myDialog.WindowStarupLocation = WindowStartupLocation.CenterOwner;
myDialog.showDialog();

This works when the toolWindow is floating and will center the dialog on the center of the owner window.

If the ToolWindow is docked, then it ends up centering on the MainWindow instead of the smaller-ToolWindow that is docked within the mainwindow.

Any idea how to do it?

I could set the Dialog's "Top" and "Left" properties, if i just had some way to get at the location i want.

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Posted 10 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi James,

Since tool windows themselves don't inherit Window, you would have to manually position the dialog.  You could probably get the element that is the ToolWindow.Content and find its midpoint.  Then call PointToScreen on that and center your dialog over that point.  I would think that logic would do it.


Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.2) was released 1 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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