Starting a tool window as a tab

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Posted 17 years ago by Anthony Martin
Version: 2.0.83
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I have a TreeView, DockManager and a single tool window. As the TreeView's nodes are selected the contents of the tool window are changed. I have the option where the user can right click on a tab and say "Open in new tab" (similar to Firefox) and a new tab is supppose to open. The user can then dock the tabs where ever he wants. If the user selects "Open in a new tab" again, it will open the tab in the current ToolWindow.

My question is, how do I have the new tool window be a tabbed window of the current ToolWindow? I want it to be automatically tabbed when it opens. Similar to dragging two tool windows on top of each other.

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Posted 17 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Tool windows will display tabs (when in a dockable state) if they are "attached".

If you execute ToolWindow.DockTo and specify a target of another tool window with an action of Attach, you can attach your new tool window to the target tool window.

Hope that helps!


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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