A Dockable Control/Component by Lidor Systems

Rendering and Styles

• Design-time support with WYSIWYG functionality while designing containers


• Supports complex nested hierarchical structure of Collector controls


• Rendering interface with five Visual Styles (Default, Classic, Office 2003, VS.NET 2003 and VS.NET 2005)


• Support for WindowsXP Themes and color schemes (Blue, Olive Green, Silver and Windows Classic Styles)


• Choose from 21 integrated color schemes or set your own color for every single part of the user interface


• Gradient fill with 6 pre-build fill styles plus flat style (no gradient fill)


• Support for Transparency (Alpha Blending)


• Watermark effect with a container image in Page control


• Headers with optional display of move, close, context-menu, auto-hide and expand/collapse button


• Windows can be expanded/collapsed to maximize screen real-estate


• Animated expand/collapse of windows for a great visual appeal, with controlled speed of animation


• Ability to cancel the closing of tool and document windows


• Detailed, highly flexible object and event model

Docking Features

• True WYSIWYG docking functionality


• Manage advanced layouts on a form, like the one in Visual Studio .NET


• Group several tool windows in one container, displayed with tabs


• Tabs of tool windows can be aligned on any side of docked container


• Tear off tabs from tool or document windows to create floating windows


• Collapse tool windows in AutoHide Mode on any side of client area


• Hide/Show tool and document windows


• Multiple dock-hint styles for exact dock location and size when a window is dragged over a potential dock target (RubberBand, TranslucentClone and TranslucentFill)


• Reposition docked windows quick and easy with drag/drop


• Each window can be in Static, Docked and Floating control state


• Tool windows can be programmatically docked anywhere in the layout


• Dynamically create new tool windows and document windows


• Docking restrictions and drag events for additional control over your application


• Resize docked container controls with integrated ResizeBand


• Resize floating tool windows at run-time

Tab and Tabbed MDI Features

• Tab Control and Tabbed MDI functionality in one place


• Tabbed MDI layout mode with optional display of close, select and scrolling buttons


• Smooth scrolling of tabs with scrolling buttons


• Drag tabbed MDI tabs to create new horizontal or vertical tab groups


• Tabbed MDI documents can be converted in and from tool windows simply with drag/drop


• Reorder tabs with drag/drop


• Move tabs between containers at design-time or run-time simply by dragging and dropping on the exact location and position you want


• Align tabs on any side of container control


• Render tabs and tabbed MDI in five Visual Styles; OneNote look is easy to achieve


• Three size modes of tabs for great control over their appearance (AutoSized, Compressed and Justified)


• Show/hide tabs in tabstrip with one click


• Tabs can be displayed with a disabled style


• Option to hide tabstrip if there is only one tab open


• Control the tab size with spacing and padding properties


• Access to the standard Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab methods for switching windows

Visual Appearance

• ToolWindow – emulates the docking functionality of Visual Studio .NET


• Vertical - achieve the look of Outlook 2003 Navigation Pane


• Horizontal - multiple layouts of tabs with all combinations of top, left, right and bottom orientation


• Selection - rotate through your panels with scrolling buttons, similar to Task Pane in Office products; each panel can contain multiple page tabs

Table based Layout Engine

• Align controls in nine positions,


• Choose from three different size types of rows and columns (autosized, fixed and free) to easily arrange your controls,


• Work with nested tables,


• Merge and split cells,


• Select, insert and delete rows, columns and table,


• Operate with each cell, row or column in order to form, align and arrange the controls in the cells to achieve the best look for your application,


• Right-click context menu for easy maipulation with table,


• Table properties dialog box.

Licensing

30 day trial version available.
One software license is required per developer.
Run-time royalty free.

System Requirements

Disk Space Required: 12MB
Memory Required: 32MB
Software Required: .NET Framework 1.1 or higher
Operation System: Win98 or higher