Serialized layout for floating windows

Hi Tobias,

Please see the "Docking/MDI / Docking Window Features / Lifecycle and Docking Management" topic in the documentation.  That has a "Default Locations" section in it that talks about a DefaultLocationRequested event that fires the first time a docking window opens.  You can set e.ShouldFloat = true in that.  That should trigger the docking window to float on first open.

After that, any layout serialization should be properly serializing the floating state if it's floating when the layout is saved.  We haven't had reports of that not working, so if you do see a problem, please let us know how to reproduce it in one of our samples.  Thanks!

Okay, thats what I mean with programmatically. Since the DefaultDockSide has no value for floating and WindowGroupName needs another docking window, I need to handle the events. There is no way to define it just in XAML or with the serialized default layout.

I was trying to avoid that since that would be the third location in my code that handles the default layout.

Hi Tobias,

The e.ShoudFloat property does get auto-initialized prior to the event being called with this logic:

e.ShouldFloat = (!hadTargetDockHost) && (window.IsFloating);

So if you new up a docking window in code and set IsFloating = true and then open it, it should float.  But if you defined the docking window in XAML, it will have already had a target DockHost assigned (the one in the DockSite that you indirectly put it in), so then e.ShouldFloat will be false by default before the event is called.