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2014‑11‑17
5,026 views
"i'm having an issue with the Docking controls, which i'm about 15 days into evaluating. i was wondering if there's so..."
2014‑10‑22
5,447 views
"If you have a tab strip with 2 or more tabs, if you left click on one to select it but hold down the left button and ..."
2014‑11‑07
4,478 views
"I create a ToolWindow programmatically, change state to TabbedDocument and activate it. dockManager1.DocumentMdiStyle..."
2014‑05‑20
4,817 views
"Hi, I need to change the height of inner-splitters in TabbedMdiRootContainer. On NewHorizontalTabGroup, I want to cha..."
2014‑05‑16
11,565 views
"I've set ToolWindowsCanClose to false in the doc manager. If I have any floating tool windows, Windows will give th..."
2012‑04‑17
7,278 views
"Good day, is there any way to keep focus on a floating tool window when the main Window's menu is clicked/activated..."
2014‑02‑10
4,939 views
"In addition to the standard menu bar and status bar, I have a news ticker positioned above the status bar. The prob..."
2009‑07‑27
6,018 views
"In the Docking Sample application, we noticed that when you undock at Tool Window to make it floating, pressing Alt+F..."
2012‑03‑09
6,535 views
"Hi Guys, any chance of being able to float document windows to take advantage of multi-monitor support?"
2013‑08‑23
5,177 views
"Hello, for some reason the LoadToolWindowLayoutFromFile does not work properly in my solution. I use classes deriv..."
2013‑07‑16
5,080 views
"Hi, If you double click with the right mouse button on a "ToolWindowContainerTab" very rapidly, you can produce a N..."
2013‑06‑13
4,520 views
"Hi I'd like to make the autohide animation a bit smoother. There are two properties in the DockManager, AutoHideH..."
2013‑05‑13
4,678 views
"Hi I've created a ToolWindow, which I don't want the user to close, so I've set the CanClose property to false. Whe..."
2013‑03‑01
4,419 views
"Hi, Is there a way to intercept the command handling for the CloseAllButSelectedActiveDocuments command and close t..."
2012‑11‑15
4,950 views
"I have an application that enables users to programatically create x number of ToolWindows. Upon re-opening a ToolWi..."
2012‑11‑02
4,651 views
"I have a ToolWindow docked in my main form which I would like to all to float while the main form is minimized. How c..."
2012‑07‑25
4,896 views
"I'm using a class inheriting from the DocumentWindow one. We've decided to load data for this window asynchronously ..."
2012‑07‑10
5,271 views
"Dear actipro team, we are currently in the process of porting one of our applications to Mac OS X through Mono. For..."
2012‑06‑16
5,463 views
"Hello, in a MDI tab environment, if one have a floating ToolWindow with the focus, it is not possible to click a To..."
2012‑06‑12
4,525 views
"Hi, is it possible to show the image only for special tabbed documents? I know I can show the image for all tabbed ..."