Restrict Docking and Nested Docking Managers

[Andrew Thompson]

Hi there, 

I'm attempting to use RadDock for WPF in a non-standard way. The UI I am working on requires:

• Top level docking to allow various "always seen" components to be positioned. Think solution explorer, Output window in VS2008
• A Tabbed area to host documents
• Within each tabbed document, another docking manager, allowing multiple components to be positioned by the user

(Refer to the attached diagram)

The diagram shows what I'm trying to achieve. I'd like to restrict docking of red items to the dock manager in which they were created and only allow them to be docked as document (not floating, not top, left, right, bottom toolpanes)

The outer components (in blue) Id only like to be repositioned in the outer dock manager (e.g. not in the red area)

Is there any way I can achieve this? The outer components I can restrict by saying "CanDockAsDocument = false" but it is possible in my model to drag the inner components out to the parent docking manager. Doh

Thanks for your time

[George]

Hi Andrew,

 
I would suggest you to refer to the following link - http://www.telerik.com/help/wpf/raddocking-features-compass.html. I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
George
the Telerik team