Protect a layout - Docking/MDI for Windows Forms Forum

Posted 12 years ago by Miriam Kuruvilla

Version: 2.0.0099

Once a layout has been created and saved, is there a way to allow the user to protect the layout?
i.e. Once it has been protected, no changes can be made to it - cant float/dock/add/remove/resize. The user will then need to "unprotect" it to make any changes.

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Posted 12 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

There are a lot of Can??? methods on DockManager that control global defaults for tool capabilities. There are related instance overrides on ToolWindow. These are all described in the documentation. I believe you can protect against all the actions you mentioned except resizing.

Still it may be better to instead (or also) save a baseline layout that you are happy with and provide a way to restore back to that when needed. Like via a "Reset Window Layout" menu item.

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v2020.1 build 0402) was released 26 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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