TabbedMdiHost: Is it possible to get a notification if the user sorts the documents with drag&drop?

Hello,

There is a DockSite.WindowsDragged event that fires after any drag occurs.  This fires when tool or document windows are dragged anywhere, but you could check the DockSite.Documents collection to see if anything changed.

I believe the collection returned by DockSite.Documents also has a CollectionChanged event you could probably watch.

Hello,

thanks for your reply.

I've already tried both ways you've mentioned, but DockSite.Documents doesn't seem to fire a CollectionChanged event (even not when adding or removing tabs).

The DockSite.WindowsDragged event also doesn't fire when only sorting the tabs.

It seems that it's only get called when i try to drag a tab out of the tab control, but not when i re-order the tabs.

Dragging out tabs is disabled in our case.

Hi Steven,

Ahh, I see.  Yes when you just reorder tabs in the same docking window container, the normal drag logic never executes and thus the WindowsDragged event won't fire for that scenario.  We are making updates for the next build to fire WindowsDragging/WindowsDragged events right after a same-container tab reorder occurs.  That way in the next build, you can reliably use the WindowsDragged event for all scenarios to know when a tab moves due to drag/reorder or drag elsewhere.

The collection returned by DockSite.Documents is a ReadOnlyObservableCollection<DockingWindow>.  Upon looking further at ReadOnlyObservableCollection<T>, it appears that their CollectionChanged event is "protected" access.