Activated Event fired 3 times

[Greg Wiers]

We are using the dock manager in a new application and have some concerns with performance due to the code being run multiple times in the Activated event of the UserDockForm.   We have looked through the forums and documentation to  get a better understanding what triggers the "Activated" event, but are not having much luck.  

Below is the code being used to create the dock form, and the activated event code.  Any help on why this event is fired 3 tiems would be greatly appreciated, and if we should be using a different event let us know.

    Private Function CreateDockedDoc(ByVal caption As String, ByVal size As System.Drawing.Size, ByVal formName As String) As UserDockForm

        Dim myform As Form = CType(Me.GetType.Assembly.CreateInstance(formName, True), Form)

        myform.MdiParent = Me

        Dim dockDocument As UserDockForm = CType(myform, UserDockForm)
        dockDocument.Text = caption
        TryCast(DockingManager1.PrimarySite, DockSite).SetDocument(dockDocument)
        dockDocument.CloseButtonVisible = False

        Return dockDocument

    End Function


    Private Sub frmSystemCodePayPeriodSetup_Activated(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Activated

        System.Console.WriteLine("Form activated ........")
    End Sub

[Julian Benkov]

Hi Greg Wiers,

This is an issue with docking forms and UserDockForm objects. The fix will be available in the release following Q3.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for the feedback.

Best wishes,
Julian Benkov
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[erwin]

The docking system seems to send more status change events than really needed, maybe because it's complicated to track the internal status and send
only needed events and at the same time make sure that everything is correctly redrawn.

I ended up with internal flags in some of my dockable windows, to do expensive activation / painting code only when really needed and ignore additional events from the docking system.

regards
erwin