Scrolling in ToolWindowContainer

Hi Roland,

It concerns me that based on what you said, you might not be using the docking windows API properly.  For instance, you should never reference any containers in code, since they dynamically get created/destroyed based on layout changes.  Instead, you want to use methods described in the documentation like ToolWindow.DockTo to programmatically build up a layout.  The first tool window you could DockTo the side of the DockSite.  The ones after that, if you wish to have them be "tabbed", you could DockTo the first tool window and use the "attach" dock mode.

The proper place for ScrollViewers is in the content of the tool window.  ScrollViewers are often the best root element for your tool window content.  That way if the tool window resizes too small for its content, the user can still get to everything by scrolling.

You can use the DockSite.ControlSize attached property to try and indicate a desired size for a tool window before it enters the layout, although it might only work on the tool window that first creates the tool window container.  Also, you can programmatically resize SplitContainers that get created (see our Programmatic Sizing QuickStart), which might help you more for your scenario.

Thanks!

I'll change the layout-building code to work as described.

However, the problem is not that the content in the ToolWindows isn't scrollable. I want to have a scroll in the container, that scrolls the available ToolWindows. I want the ToolWindows to have a specified initial size, and a scrollable container for them. One scrollable container with multiple toolwindows.

Programmatic sizing only helps to make the toolwindows have the right initial size, it doesn't help to get a scrollviewer in the container itself.

Hi Roland,

Sorry but I'm still not quite sure of how you want it to end up looking.  Could you mock up a screenshot or two and upload them somewhere for us to see?

There are two places you can use a ScrollViewer with the tool windows.  One would be inside of each tool window's content area, which is normally done.  The second would be to surround the entire DockSite with a ScrollViewer, but in my opinion, that doesn't make the Docking system as usable.