Tool Window Title bar image

Hi Jeff,

The icon support is on the TODO list and for bg images, you can set a general bg image already by using an ImageBackgroundFill for a property that most of the DockRenderers support. The property lets you set the BackgroundFill for active and inactive title bars.

Hi Support,

Are you talking about ToolWindow.Backgroundfill property? I tried that is not the title bar backgound, am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance
Jeff

No that is a BackgroundFill for the background of the ToolWindow itself. I'm thinking of VisualStudio2002DockRenderer.DockContainerTitleBarActiveBackgroundFill and VisualStudio2002DockRenderer.DockContainerTitleBarInactiveBackgroundFill. IDockRenderer doesn't define those properties however all our renderer implementations themselves have them (VisualStudio2002DockRenderer, VisualStudio2005DockRenderer, Office2003DockRenderer, etc.).

When I try the following codes

((VisualStudio2005DockRenderer)dockManager1.DockRenderer).DockContainerTitleBarActiveBackgroundFill =
new ImageBackgroundFill(Image.FromFile(@"C:\bg.gif"));

I got error message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." So I modified it to

VisualStudio2005DockRenderer TitleImage = new VisualStudio2005DockRenderer();
TitleImage = (VisualStudio2005DockRenderer)dockManager1.DockRenderer;
(TitleImage).DockContainerTitleBarActiveBackgroundFill = new ImageBackgroundFill(Image.FromFile(@"C:\bg.gif"));

now I won't get the error message but still cannot get the background image.

Thanks

Initially DockManager.DockRenderer will be null, meaning it's using the global renderer. There is a documentation topic on that.

You need to modify it like this:

Thanks, I can display the image now. Is it possible to have different image for different Tool Windows? e.g. If I got 2 Tool Window in a DockManager, can I have ToolWindow1 set to bg1.gif and ToolWindow2 set to bg2.gif?

Thanks in advance

We don't have properties for that right now but I can add it to the TODO list for you.

Thank you so much