Is it possible to hide a floating document window?

[Nicholas]

How can I hide a floating document window? Right now it seems as though if you right-click, it gives you the option to be able to hide the window, but when you click on it, it doesn't really hide it, it closes it instead. When I switch the closeAction propery to hide, it seems like you can hide the window now. But when it's on the default behavior for closeaction which is closeanddispose, it just closes it. Is that what it's supposed to do? Is there a way to close the window when I hit the x and if I hide it, it actually hides it? I noticed that if I disable the option to hide (which AutoHide is already disabled), it disables the x in the corner of the window too. 

[Hristo]

Hi Nicholas,

Thank you for writing.

Whether a window will be hidden or closed is determined by its CloseAction property and the default value is CloseAndDispose. When hiding a floating window with CloseAction different than Hide it will close. This behavior is by design and it is desired. Additional information how the property works is available here: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/dock/object-model/removing-toolwindow-and-documentwindow-at-runtime.

As I understand, you would like to have the floating hide when you choose Hide from the context menu and close when clicking the Close button. This can be accomplished by handling the ContextMenuItemClicked event of the context menu service and setting the CloseAction property of the window to Hide. When you show it, however, you will also need to restore the default value of the property so that you can close the window and not hide it when clicking the Close button. Please check my code snippet below: 

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        ContextMenuService svc = this.radDock1.GetService<ContextMenuService>();
        svc.ContextMenuItemClicked += Svc_ContextMenuItemClicked;
    }
    private void Svc_ContextMenuItemClicked(object sender, ContextMenuItemClickEventArgs e)
    {
        DockWindow window = e.Item.Tag as DockWindow;
        if (window != null && window.DockState == DockState.Floating)
        {
            window.CloseAction = DockWindowCloseAction.Hide;
        }
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        DockWindow[] hiddenWindows = this.radDock1.DockWindows.GetWindows(DockState.Hidden);
        foreach (DockWindow dw in hiddenWindows)
        {
            dw.CloseAction = DockWindowCloseAction.CloseAndDispose;
            dw.Show();
        }
    }
}

I am also attaching a short video showing the result on my end.

I hope this information was useful. Let me know if you have other questions.

Regards,
Hristo
Progress Telerik