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2023‑04‑12
334 views
"When dragging there are four arrows of the main window on the edges, these don't seem to allow the dragged tool windo..."
2024‑03‑06
96 views
"On ToolWindows that are hidden, their Dispose method will randomly get an exception when the application is closed. ..."
2023‑06‑28
282 views
"Have a bunch of tabbed dock windows below two other tool windows. If I attempt to drag one of the tabbed window out..."
2022‑09‑19
344 views
"We are setting the dockManager's ToolWindowLayoutData to an XmlDocument. In a particular case we are getting object..."
2022‑06‑24
593 views
"Hi,We are seeing a black screen on application startup covering the DocumentWindow (V 22.1.0). It was running fine wi..."
2021‑11‑01
560 views
"Hi Support Team. I need to do the following: - Find out, whether there is a ToolWindowContainer present, which is..."
2018‑11‑18
1,233 views
"I create my ToolWindows from UserControl and initialize them programmatically, as below: CustomersWindow = New Custo..."
2021‑08‑06
567 views
"I understand that the ToolWindowLayoutData property for the DockManager stores all the information about panels that ..."
2020‑07‑22
888 views
"Hi, Note: You will need a High DPI monitor to see this issue! 1. Open the Actipro Sample Project. 2. On the Pro..."
2019‑12‑13
997 views
"I have a form that is already contained inside a tool window. It is dockable inside my application. I want to creat..."
2019‑07‑12
858 views
"A dockmanager was created and 2 toolwindows are the configuration windows which should be hidden after a calculate is..."
2018‑11‑18
1,022 views
"It seems that ToolWindow does not honor the CanDockHostTop property, when False. All my ToolWindows are UserControl..."
2016‑05‑01
3,917 views
"Hello, ToolWindows disappear from the designer when hosting the DockManager in a derived UserControl. This is neces..."
2018‑07‑10
1,382 views
"Any way to implement an indicator in the title bar of a ToolWindow like the Docking WPF version does? Can't easily s..."
2018‑08‑06
1,246 views
"Is there a property that can help in automatically closing a window when a drag event leaves the boundary of the wind..."
2007‑08‑11
3,477 views
"Hello I am evaluating the docking control whether I can realize my gimmick. I need a notification if a ToolWind..."
2018‑01‑22
2,064 views
"When we try to load the layout by setting the appropriate value for dockManager.ToolWindowLayoutData, it seems visual..."
2009‑04‑26
4,610 views
"Is there a way to do this yet in UIStudio? If not, how hard would it be to implement a custom renderer to do this? ..."
2017‑04‑25
4,193 views
"Hi. I am facing an issue with getting events (specifically KeyDown) from a floating window when the layout is first..."
2017‑04‑18
2,848 views
"Is there a way to to determine what tool window was dragged when the tool window dragged event is fired? Visual Stu..."