Hosting a Win32 window in a WPF floating tear off tab

[Seth]

Hi guys,

I have described my problem with hosting a Win32 OSG (built on OpenGL) control in RadDocking for WPF here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10544938/hosting-a-win32-window-in-a-wpf-floating-tear-off-tab

Do you have any ideas what might cause the problem?

Thanks,
Seth

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hi Seth,

I made this thread public to let other users find the response and see the sample project.

The RadDocking control uses transparent WPF windows to display its ToolWindows by default and as a platform limitation of WPF, you cannot display any non-WPF content in such transparent windows. What you could do is to make the windows non-transparent by setting the RadWindowInteropHelper.AllowTransparency attached property of ToolWindow to False. This could be achieved using a custom GeneratedItemsFactory. Please refer to the attached sample project.

Hope this helps.

Greetings,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team

[Seth]

Miroslav,

Thanks, that did the trick adding the 'NonTrasparentWindowsGeneratedItemsFactory' factory class.

Cheers,
Seth

[Christian]

I had the same problem and this solution works, but is it possible to do this only for selected tool windows?  I don't want to have my regular tool windows (not hosting winforms) be non transparent.

Thanks

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hi Christian,

Creating different types of ToolWindows is not possible with the current implementation of the GeneratedItemsFactory - the factory produces the items without knowing how they are going to be used.

All the best,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team