Stop resizing of toolwindows within docksite

Hi,

As Mentioned by the Bret Naughton in above post. 

In order to do this programmatically, do I have to loop through all of the docksites/toolwindows and for each, find the relevant splitters and set to 'IsEnabled=False'.

How to get the docksites/toolwindows and for each, find the relevant splitters....?

You already know which DockSites you have and each has a ToolWindows collection.  So you could iterate through those and look at the ParentContainer properties.  Then continue iterating up the Parent hierarchy to look for SplitContainers.

Or you could start at your DockSite and run down through its Content, which could be a container.  If it's a SplitContainer, use VisualTreeHelper to find the ContainerSplitters in it and disable them.  Then recurse down further.

Hi,

I am able to get the SplitterContainer from the toolwindowcollection of the docksite and also able to apply the IsEnabled property to false.

But the other functionality breks.

Suppose i have usercontrol1 is hosted as the toolwindow which is in the above toolwindowcollection and i am also having the MouseDown event in the button of the usercontrol.So i disabled the Splittercontainer and then i am not able to get the debug point on the Mousedown event  of the usercontrol ie. in the Splittercontainer.

So how to get only  Splitter from the splittercontainer and the then set the splitter.Isenabled to false. 

I can't use the Visual TreeHelper because i am hosting the usercontrol as the toolwindow in the docksite and the container ie. either SpliContainer or the ContainerSplitters are automatically created . 

Hi Keshav,

I think you have it wrong, you don't want SplitContainer.  That is the container and disabling that will disable all child controls.  You want the ContainerSplitter controls within the SplitContainer.

You can use VisualTreeHelper methods at any time on a visual once the visuals have been created (generally after its template has been applied).  It doesn't matter if the container is automatically created or not.  Once it's loaded, you can use VisualTreeHelper on it.

Hi,

I am not able to get the ContainerSplitter from the SplitContainer using the VisualTreeHelper.

Code used is :

VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(splitContainer);

or

VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(splitContainer);

So please provide some line of code that gets the ContainerSplitter from the SplitContainer using the VisualTreeHelper.

Hi Keshav,

It's easy, code like this shows the visual children and I see ContainerSplitters in there:

var count = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(split);
for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
	var ele = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(split, i);
	Console.WriteLine(i + ": " + ele);
}

Hi,

I am get the zero value for the  code as specified above.

var count = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(split);

so i am not able to get the ContainerSplitter form the splitContainer.

Thats y i am not able to set the style for disabling the ContainerSplitter because style always applys on the ContainerSplitter not on SplitContainer.

Sorry, I'm not sure what to tell you except make sure you run the code I posted above on a SplitContainer (in my case in the variable named split), and do so after the layout has been loaded.  It worked fine for me.  If you get zero results you are either looking at the wrong element or are doing it before the layout has loaded.