Suppose I have several floating DockAreaPanes, each containing a single DockableControlPane. I allow the user to tile the screen vertically or horizontally with a subset of the floating panes.
It happens sometimes that the z-order of floating panes is wrong, so that part of a pane being tiled is covered by another pane not part of the current tiled group.
How can I set the z-order of floating dock areas? If I remove a DockAreaPane and reinsert at the desired index, it loses its contents.
Thanks
For the record, I succeeded with the following strategy.
For each DockableControlPane pane, working backwards: pane.Parent.Panes.Remove(pane); DockAreaPane dap = new DockAreaPane(DockedLocation.Floating); dap.Panes.Add(pane); pane.Manager.DockAreas.Insert(dap, 0);
I disabled events around the loop. There is some flashing which I'll try to reduce.
The trick is apparently to create a new DockAreaPane rather than manipulate the old one.
With the above strategy, the new floating pane appears briefly before assuming its new location and size. It has a full-height XP window caption as opposed to the shorter tool caption it eventually gets, and appears in a standard cascade if there are several.
I tried various ways to eliminate the flash, including hiding the pane until repositioned, and moving the new floating DockAreaPane offscreen, but none worked.
How do I do it?