Docking in MDI Application

[Aaron]

The application that we are looking to write using a docking window scheme would have to be an MDI application.
The problem I have seen with most other tools is that when you set up the "dock manager" type control to cover all of your application's main form, you lose the MDI client area.  The MDI client area becomes hidden behind the docking portion of the control set.
I downloaded the latest version of the WinForms control pack and looked in the help and found a section called "Using The r.a.d.dock In MDI Mode" but there is no text within this section.

Can you give me any examples or ideas on how your control set handles the docking ability when contained in an MDI parent form?
Our parent application window will need to have a dock manager allowing docking at top, bottom, right and left.  Our MDI Child forms will also have a dock manager that will allow at least docking at the top and bottom of that form.
I want to try this out in some detail to see how well your control set handles what we are trying to do.

Thanks for any information you can provide.

Aaron Peronto

[Chris]

Hello Aaron,
This feature is still not available in the latest version of radControls for WinForms but it's on our TODO list and we'll implement it for some of the next releases.

Best wishes,
the telerik team Chris

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[quimbo]

any idea when this will be available?  it is the only missing feature that is preventing me from purchasing

[Julian Benkov]

Hi quimbo,

The implementation of this functionality is not scheduled for the official Q1 2007 release but we'll definitely add it in the first service pack that follows (about 2-3 weeks after the official release). Sorry to keep you waiting.
 

Sincerely yours,
Julian Benkov
the telerik team

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[Mike]

if this is the Aaron Peronto that grew up in Kynwood, please get on myspace.com and look for MKNelson, Trinity High graduate 1990.

[Phil]

Does anyone know when this feature will be implemented?

Phil

Using The r.a.d.dock In MDI Mode

[Dimitar Kapitanov]

Hi Phil,

The DockingManager has an AutoDetectMdiChildForms property. When it set to true and it's parent Form IsMdiContainer property is set to true, the DockingManager automatically manages the MDI Children forms. You need to set the MdiParent property to the parent form:

childForm.MdiParent = parentForm;

The child form is automatically shown in the Tabbed document interface of the DockingManager. The MdiChildren property returns all child forms the same way as form's MdiChildren property. Every child form is hosted in DocumentPane instance, and can be  accessed through MdiChild property of the DocumentPane object.

Unfortunately, for the moment our DockingManager has the same behavior as most other docking managers, i.e. in Dock Fill mode it covers the whole  MDI  client area.

Sincerely yours,
Dimitar Kapitanov
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[Lorenzo]

Hi, 

Our application has the same requirements that wrote Aaron Peronto.
We need to be able to:
- Dock forms on top-bottom-left-right
- Move forms outside the parent form area (floating mode) - This for multi monitor support
- Move forms inside the parent form MDI area. (floating / maximized inside MDI area)

We absolutely need to prevent tabbed document mode.
Is there a way to get the goal? We was thinking to use only toolwindows, but we dont understand how to keep the floating windows inside the MDI area.

This feature is very important for us, is the key of our development.

Thanks in advance,
Lorenzo

[Julian Benkov]

Hi Lorenzo,

Thank you for writing to us.

Currently, this functionality is not supported by RadDock. You can use the MDI feature of RadDock only in a tabbed document scenario.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions or issues.

Regards,
Julian Benkov
the Telerik team