i want floating windows not to appear on top of the form they were floated from.  In case anyone cares i've hacked around it by clearing out the owner property of the parent form when the control is floating like this :

               Form f = FindForm();
               if (f != null)
               {
                  f.Owner = null;
               }

i'm sure this will come back to haunt me somehow. I've also played around with showing the real form caption and removing the floating panel caption so it looks like a real window. Goofy stuff like this:

                  f.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.Sizable;
                  f.ControlBox = true;
                  f.MaximizeBox = true;
                  f.MinimizeBox = true;
                  f.SizeGripStyle = SizeGripStyle.Show;
                  DockMananger.SetCaptionVisible(this, false);

Bill

I believe you can do this with the BeforeDockChange event. It will be fired as you drag a pane over other panes. You can put code in there to see which dock area the new pane is being dragged to. If the dock area contains this floated pane, you can set e.Cancel to True.

Hi Mike,

 Once a pane is floated is there a way to prevent other panes from being docked to it?

Thanks,

Bill

Is this the only way to get a hold of the Form hosting the floating panes? I am looking to ensure that all floating panes always draw on top.  Currently our application can drag multiple docked windows out into floating windows, but those windows get lost behind our main application. Is there another way to do this in NetAdv2005 vol3? Also, it would be great to get the individual floating windows to show up in the taskbar as well.  Thanks!

thanks mike i'll take a look for that method.  So far I haven't had any issues blasting the owner property, I also set the ShowInTaskbar property to make the window easier to locate.