Possible to save document state?

How would you like to see the implementation work, like what if there are already documents loaded? What happens to those if they have the document layout split up already?

I imagine you could initialize the documents in the WindowInitializing event, right?

I'm not familiar enough with UIStudio to know how things work with ToolWindows in relation to your question... i.e. if 10 toolwindows are open and I load a layout with 7 toolwindows do they just replace the others?
I guess I want it to work like saving a solution in Visual Studio. When I reopen a solution in devstudio all the documents (and layout) are restored. Having just tried this, if documents are open it seems to make a "best guess" at matching the previous layout/split.
Would be quite happy if this was available as a separate property on the DockManager e.g at startup for my app I could set ToolWindowLayoutData and, say, DocumentWindowLayoutData in same fashion.

If it helps to understand the issue, "documents" in the application are really special windows that can only appear in the tabbed MDI area. They do not correspond to the file system and there can be only one window of each type (like say 5 possible windows and 1-5 of them visible).

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Ok, we'll add it to the TODO list and will give it a shot.

That's great. Is this likely to make the next maintenance release? If so, is one planned anytime soon?

We are planning on a maintenance release relatively soon since we already have several small bug fixes in place. It hasn't been decided whether that will be a maintenance release update or not. We'll have to see how much work it will be.

Has this feature been added meanwhile?
If not how do I accomplish this task?
Right now I am saving the layout of document windows, but I am not able restore them correctly. With the predecessor of UIStudio (I think it was called DockableWindows) it was possible to rearrange document windows. But I don't know who to do it with UIStudio.

Hi Frank,

No, there are issues to consider such as what if there are documents already open or how do we tell you what to open, what if a document cannot be opened, etc. that we never got into a discussion with our customers on to give us more direction.

If you email/post to us some of the code you were using before, perhaps we can tell you if there is something similar in UIStudio. UIStudio should be able to do pretty much anything DockableWindow did and more.

Don't mind. In the meantime I have reimplemented the behavior it had with DockableWindow and it works now. Besides this I still think the ability to reload documents would be a great feature.

If you have any ideas on how to handle some of those design issues that were mentioned, please email them over. Thanks!