Hidden toolwindow expands to size of the main window

Hi Steven,

We haven't seen this.  Can you give exact steps to make it happen in one of our samples so we can see what you see?

Thank you for your reply!

From the sample browser, I launched the RibbonWindow with Docking Demo Browser. I clicked the pin icon in the tool window on the right side of the browser to hide the "Document Outline & Properties" toolwindows. When I hover over the name of the window with the mouse, the hidden window expands to its original size, before it was hidden. The next step was to click the pin again to so the window is not hidden. This also works fine and the window is pinned back to it original position and size. I then took the toolwindow "Document Outline" and dragged it and docked it to the bottom of the RibbonWindow. I clicked the pin to hide the toolwindow, and bot the "document Outline" and "Properties" toolwindows are hidden. The effect I'm talking about happens when I hover over the name of the hidden toolwindow and it expands to take up the entire space below the Ribbon menu. This is the behavior that I would likt to control, so when I hover over or click on the name of the hidden toolwindow, it does not expand to the entire working area.

The effect also happens when I dock the two windows on the right side of the RibbonWindow, but it is only the "Properties" toolwindow that expands to take up so much space.

Is this behavior controllable?

Hi Steven,

Thanks for the repro steps.  This case is particularly tricky because when you first auto-hide the docking window, it stores its size for that auto-hide state, and that initial size comes from the current docked state size (tall and thin).  Then when you un-auto-hide and dock to the bottom and auto-hide again, since the desired auto-hide size has already been set, it is trying to reuse that.  Until the user resizes the auto-hide container that is.

The good news is that these sizes can be retrieved and set at any time via the DockSite.GetControlSizeForState and SetControlSizeForState methods.  So with those methods, you are able to set sizes for the AutoHide state, etc.  Note that setting them will only affect the next time the properties are accessed.  For auto-hide state, after they are set, they should affect the next time the flyout is opened.

Thank you so much for the quick reply. Those methods were just what were needed to achieve the desired functionality.