I have a mdi form with a pannel docked to the top and a pannel docked to the bottom.
In the middle there is a grid.
I want that when a line in the grid is being double-clicked, a new tab will be added to the pannel on the bottom of the form.
Right now it does that by adding a tab to the TabControl and loading a UserControl... but this is not what I want since I want to be able to group tabs horizontally (And this cannot be done with UserControls and with the TabControl).
When I try to add a new form to the MDI form, it just adds it over the grid in the middle.
Is it even possible to add the forms/tabs to the panel on the bottom, or to an area which has docking?
10x for your reply.
Is the grid defined on the mdi parent Form or one of the children? If the grid is on the parent, you can try setting its Dock property to Top. That will position the mdi parent's MdiClient control below the grid and no mdi children will display over it.
It is a part of the parent MDI form.
Your solution still doesn't help me cause I want the that the MDI children will be displayed inside the panel on the bottom which has dock to bottom.
It would have been great if I can add tabs and group them in the regular ultra tab control, but I haven't seen that feature, cause right now I add new tabs to the ultra tab control and each tab contains a user control, but I would like to show 2 groups of tabs side by side.
I have similar problem,
By default my main window has only one TabGroups.
I want to make another TabGroup in bottom of main window and put there some MdiChild form. All of this i must do in C# not in Runtime.
Is this possible?
I don't think you can do it in c# designer...
You must do it in runtime since you need reference to an existing MDI Form to be the MdiParent and you also need the child form objects.
I think that I was misunderstood.
I have found solution what I was looking for. In my case I don't want to do this in Designer but write some method whitch do this in runtime.
An example what I was searching:
public void CompareForms(Form editor1, Form editor2)
{
editor1.MdiParent = MdiForm;
editor2.MdiParent = MdiForm;
editor1.Show();
editor2.Show();
if(ultraTabbedMdiManager1.TabGroups.Count > 0 && ultraTabbedMdiManager1.TabGroups[0].Tabs.Count == 2) { ultraTabbedMdiManager1.TabGroups[0].Tabs[1].MoveToNewGroup(ultraTabbedMdiManager1.TabGroups[0], RelativePosition.After, Orientation.Vertical); }
}