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Dock a form

Christian posted over 16 years ago

Hi,

I'm new to the Infragitics Tools and have a problem. I want to dock a form by the help of the ultradockmanager. Here is my samplecode:

private void btnTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            SuspendLayout();

            Form frm = new TestForm1();

            frm.TopLevel = false;

            frm.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.SizableToolWindow;

            DockableControlPane dcpForm =
              new DockableControlPane("form1", "Ein Formular", frm);

            DockableGroupPane dgpForm = new DockableGroupPane();
            dgpForm.ChildPaneStyle = ChildPaneStyle.TabGroup;
            dgpForm.Panes.Add(dcpForm);

            DockAreaPane dapLeft = new DockAreaPane(DockedLocation.DockedLeft);
            dapLeft.Panes.Add(dgpForm);

            this.ultraDockManager1.DockAreas.Add(dapLeft);

            ResumeLayout();
        }

Where is my fault? The "IsMdiContainer"-property of the (parent-)form ist set to true. Is there an C# sample project for docking forms by the ultradockmanager?

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Mike Dour posted over 16 years ago

I tried similar code and I also could not get this to work. It looks like it may be a bug. I would recommend submitting the issue to the support group: http://es.infragistics.com/gethelp.
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Peter posted over 16 years ago in reply to Mike Dour

A workaround is to place a panel control on the form, add it to the docking manager at design time. In the form's Load event create an instance of your form and add it as a child of the panel control, show it, and then make sure its resized along with the panel Its a kludge, but the only extra code above your initial example is the Panel's resize event - and you get to re-use your forms while waiting for a proper fix.
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Steve posted over 16 years ago in reply to Peter

pfalcon,

Thanks for updating this thread with your findings. I have the same need to dock a form within another form. Can you provide a little more detail of the code that you used to accomplish the steps you mentioned. In particular, I'm having trouble figuring out how to add a form as a child of a panel. Assuming I have a main form "Main_Form" within which I want to dock an instance of a child form "Child_Form" and that I have a panel "panelLeft" that is docking fine on the main form, I attempt the following:

Form formChild = new Child_Form();

this.panelLeft.Controls.Add(formChild);

I get an error that a top level control can not be added to a panel.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Steve
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Peter posted over 16 years ago in reply to Steve

The following is the code snippit that I got working when trying to prove the case. I'm not sure if the show() is entirely necessary, but i did find I had to take care of resizing issues as the panel didn't necessarily manage that itself with regard to its child controls - though I admit I stopped researching at that point as I had functioning code...

private void frmIdeasByProcess_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

// I'm trying to host a plain form wthin a docking area - this means I can create a singe idea edit/browse form and

// just re-use it everywhere...

frmIdeaEdit frm = new frmIdeaEdit();

frm.TopLevel = false;

pnlIdeas.Controls.Add(frm);

frm.Parent = pnlIdeas;

frm.Show();

}

private void pnlIdeas_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

// resize the form contained with in it...

pnlIdeas.Controls[0].Height = pnlIdeas.Height;

pnlIdeas.Controls[0].Width = pnlIdeas.Width;

}
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