How to get a reference to new PaneGroup

[Frank Wanicka]

When you have a DocumentHost and you drag one of the documents to create a new PaneGroup (using the compass), RadDocking dynamically creates a new PaneGroup. What is the recommended way to get a reference to it when it is created? I would like to add an event handler and set some other properties. I'm not seeing an obvious way of doing this.

Also, then you have multiple PaneGroups, each has a SelectedPane property. Is there any way to determine which RadPane is actually the one that is currently selected/has the focus?

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hello Frank,

 The recommended way to set additional properties to the PaneGroups is to use implicit styles and set the properties in the Style setters. If you need to attach event handlers you could use the attached behavior approach - an attached property that adds behavior to the element it is attached to.

Another approach to accomplish this task is to implement your own IGeneratedItemsFactory and to set it to the GeneratedItemsFactory property of the Docking control. This interface has methods for creating ToolWindows, PaneGroups and SplitContainers and you can set additional properties or hook-up to events just before returning them.

About your second request - I guess you want to implement ActivePane feature. This is currently not supported by the Docking control, but it is in our TODO list.

Hope this information is helpful!

Best wishes,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team