AutoHide toolwindow mouse threshold

There currently isn't a way to control the hover delay. It's triggered on the MouseHover event of the control which should be using the system hover time.

There is a DockManager.AutoHideShowOnMouseHover property that will turn hover selecting off.

I the property you mention DockManager.AutoHideShowOnMouseHover would do the trick for me, but I don't see that property on DockManager?

I am using the 2.0.0075 release, is this property new in the 2.0.0076 release?

Yes it was added in build 76.

This property doesn't seem to affect the auto-hidden toolwindow if the mouse is in the middle of a drag operation. Can you update this property so that the toolwindow will not auto-display during normal or dragged hover?

Hi Marianne,

Could you go into a little more detail on what you mean by "normal or dragged hover"? Also shouldn't it expand for drag operations in case the drop target is on the tool window?

I just mean that the property works to disable a "normal" hover but if you hover over the toolwindow while dragging it will always expand regardless of the property setting. I understand the point where the drop target may be inside the toolwindow. For my users, though, there is a lot of dragging going on into the main document windows and users are frustrated because they are constantly dropping items into a suddenly expanded toolwindow instead of the document window as intended.

The short term answer would be to set a consistent behavior with the property whether dragging or not. The long term answer would be to add a property that will control how long the hover lasts before a window is expanded. If this were available users could set the number high enough so that dragging over a toolwindow en route to the document window wouldn't cause an expansion but if they intended the toolwindow as the drop target they could hover on it for a second before it opened.

This is now fixed for the next maintenance release:
Changed auto-hidden tool windows so that when a drag operation occurs over a tab, it does not slide open if the DockManager.AutoHideShowOnMouseHover is set to false.