Close ToolWindow Programmatically

[James]

Hello,

Is it possible to close a ToolWindow programmatically?

I have a ToolWindow that hosts a View (MVVM) and I want the ToolWindow to close when a button is clicked.

The View knows nothing about the ToolWindow (does not reference RadDocking assembly etc) so I can not implement a WindowCommands.Close command on the button to do this.

So what I thought I could do is have my app's Shell Manager assembly (that does reference RadDocking) receive a "CloseView" event which passes in a reference to the View (UIElement). From there I can get a reference to the ToolWindow via ParentOfType<>. So far so good. But now there is no Close() on ToolWindow! I can see one but it's marked Internal ;-(

Any suggestions on this?

Regards,
James

 

 

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hi James,

 You could use the same approach and trigger the WindowCommands.Close command from your view instead of searching for reference to the ToolWindow and calling its Close method (that is internal).

Best wishes,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team

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[Yao]

hi, admin
    how to  trigger the WindowCommands.Close command from my view instead of searching for reference to the ToolWindow and calling its Close method.
    thanks!

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hi y y,

What I would suggest you is to add a RadButton and set its Command property to be WindowCommands.Close.

Hope this helps!

Kind regards,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team