Shortcut for Radpane navigation

[Arnstein]

 In Visual Studio it's possible to open a "navigation window" by pressing Ctrl + tab. This window shows active tool windows and active files. Do you have anything similar in Telerik docking? What I need is a way to navigate between radpanes using the keyboard.

Regards
Arnstein Volden

[Vladi]

Hello,

In the current version of RadDocking there isn't a built-in feature that could be used to assign keyboard shortcuts that will activate specific Panes but it is easily achievable.

You can do the following:

• Create a custom RoutedCommand
• Set the InputGestures of that custom RoutedCommand
• In the CommandBindings of the RadDocking set the newly created command and set the Executed event
• In that handler implement a custom logic that will set a specific Pane to the ActivePane of the RadDocking control

I created and attached a sample project for you of the described approach, hope this is helpful.

Regards,
Vladi
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[David Storey]

Hello are there any plans to add in something like the QuickNavigation for docking thats offered with the Telerik winforms controls?

I appreciate this can be done with input gestures but I need the UI view of the tabs on offer.  A lot more code that I was hoping not to write and would be offered by the controls we had purchased.

Thanks

[Kalin]

Hi David,

Thanks for the feedback. We don't have such feature planned, however I logged in our Feedback portal. You can vote for it and track its status on the following link:
https://feedback.telerik.com/Project/143/Feedback/Details/113003-docking-navigation-window-for-visible-panes-ctrltab

If you have any other questions or concerns, let us know.

Regards,
Kalin
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[Decisive Computing]

Kalin, this sample is good, but it assumes you have certain tabs. Is there a way to tell Docking to activate the next tab in the DocumentHost?Take Visual Studio for example. You can have any number of files open and Ctrl+Tab will switch between them in the order in which they were accessed. Since Docking has a way to activate a specific pane when one is closed, is there a way to access that same logic to determine which pane to activate next using Ctrl+Tab?

[Kalin]

Hello,

I updated the link to the item in our Feedback portal in my previous post, as appeared this has already been logged.

Brian - with the current implementation of RadDocking there isn't public built-in functionality to activate the next pane. However you could easily implement this by finding the current active Pane in the Document host and activating the one on the next index. For example if you do it on button click, here is a sample implementation:

private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    this.Dock.ActivePane = this.NextActivePane();
}

private RadPane NextActivePane()
{
    var documentHostPanes = this.Dock.Panes.Where(p => p.IsInDocumentHost && !p.IsHidden && p.IsPinned).ToList();
    var nextIndexToActivate = documentHostPanes.IndexOf(this.Dock.ActivePane) + 1;
    if (nextIndexToActivate == documentHostPanes.Count)
    {
        nextIndexToActivate = 0;
    }

    return documentHostPanes.ElementAt(nextIndexToActivate);
}

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Kalin
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[Decisive Computing]

Thanks for that tip and that is the same solution I came up with. It would be really nice to implement this feature as many popular software packages (most notable Visual Studio) use the "last active" algorithm based on what tabs have been activated most recently (either by clicking, keyboard, or other means).

[Kalin]

Hello Brian,

I would like to thank you for the feedback. Please follow the item in our Feedback portal in order to get notified for any updates.

If you have any other questions or concerns, please let us know.

Regards,
Kalin
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