Sub Docking Area inside a Window

I think I've got it figured out:

- If you have more than one docking manager, you cannot dock toolwindows from docking manager A into docking manager B and vice versa.

- I probably don't need more than one docking manager.

- I should be able to use docking and tool windows to subdivide my window into the regions I want, relieving the necessity for other containers (docking in side of which I cannot get to work...).

Hi John,

As you saw, you can have multiple DockManagers (each one targeting a different host container control like a Form/UserControl), but you cannot move docking windows between the two DockManager layouts.  Docking windows are restricted to staying within their own DockManager layout.

The interesting thing is that multiple docking managers can share the same window, and they appear to play nicely with each other, with the exception of not being able to inner dock to each others tool windows.  Would be cool if that was possible, but I understand if it is not.

Is there a way to get a dockable region inside a container on a form?  I want to be able to dock inside a panel or similar on a form, is that possible?

You could set the DockManager.HostContainerControl to a blank UserControl you put inside your Form somewhere.  That would make that DockManager work within that UserControl only.

That would work, however, I believe the DockManager's host container control needs to be the main form overall, because it is controlling the docking for all my various forms.  Can you change the host container control on the fly?

Otherwise this is what led me to having two docking managers, the existing one for all the docking, and the 2nd one for my panel.  But because toolwindows from docking manager 1 cannot dock to docking manager 2 tool windows, that doesn't quite work.

Another option would be to keep the 2 docking managers, if it is possible to define a toolwindow on the same form with two different docking managers.  That sounds pretty strange, but maybe it works?

System.ApplicationException: 'No new host container control may be set if there are any tool or document windows associated with the DockManager. Remove all tool and document windows and then change the HostContainerControl property.'

Cannot change the host container control on the fly.