Pinning an auto hidden DockPanel

[johns]

I have a DockingManger that has two DockPanels setup at design time.
One of the DockPanels I want to allow auto hiding and pinning, the other not.  This works just fine, but I also do not want to allow other potential DockPanels to be docked to this DockingManger.  To do so I set the AllowDocking property on the DockingManger to false.

Unfortunately a side effect of doing so prevents an auto hidden DockPanel from being re-pinned. 

Is there a way around this?

[Julian Benkov]

Hello johns,

You may use this workaround. Just handle the DockingManager DockingStateChanged event and VisisbleChanged event of desired DockPanel:

void dockPanel1_VisibleChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if(dockPanel1.DockState == DockState.AutoHide && dockPanel1.Visible)
    {
        dockingManager1.AllowDocking = true;
    }
}

private void dockingManager1_DockingStateChanged(object sender, DockingChangedEventArgs e)
{
    if(e.DockObject == dockPanel1 && dockPanel1.DockState == DockState.Docked )
    {
        dockingManager1.AllowDocking = false;
    }
}

I hope this was helpful.
 

Kind regards,
Julian Benkov
the Telerik team

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[johns]

Thank you, that did the trick.