Full range of CommandBar styles DockStudioXP accurately emulates a full range of visual styles, including Office 95, Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003. Subtle features of each style are faithfully implemented, including drop shadows and blended grayscale disabled images.
Visual Studio.NET style docking DockStudioXP allows you to implement the ultimate in docking flexibility with no complex manual coding.
Dockable windows provide a rich customization experience for users of your application, allowing the user to redesign the layout of the application to make use of personal preferences for screen real estate – some users prefer to have all of an applications options out in plain sight, while other users prefer to concentrate solely on the task at hand without being distracted by options they don’t need right now.
Dockable windows in the DockStudio control support a variety of distinct arrangement states to maximize this user experience. Dockable windows can be:
- Docked to the sides of your application.
- Floating above your application in separate windows.
- Collapsed to the side of your application, only appearing when the user moves their cursor over the DockWindow’s caption.
- Tab-docked to other DockWindows.
You can dock windows to any area of your form simply by dragging the windows caption to the desired area (just as in the Visual Studio and Visual Studio.NET IDE).
You can even dock windows to other windows to create Visual Studio.NET style Tab-docked windows.
Docked windows can be collapsed to Visual Studio.NET style buttons.
Clicking on a collapsed window button causes the window to 'fly out'. This docking technique allows you to provide easy access to infrequently used windows.
For complete flexibility, the docking state of any DockWindow can be controlled programmatically through the comprehensive DockStudioXP object model.
Visual Designer The Visual Designer included with DockStudioXP makes creating Toolbar and DockWindow layouts a breeze.
Simply drag and drop commands from the Layout Explorer onto your Toolbars. Size and arrange DockWindows and Toolbars just as you would at runtime.
