DockPanelSuite's DockState and AutoHide
c#, dockpanel-suite, winforms
Solution
1 is a decent way to accomplish this. The library has an internal method, `DockHelper.IsDockStateAutoHide()` that does basically the same thing. This should actually be made into a public extension method and included as part of the library.
2 Your solution is good.
3 & 4 would probably be best implemented as a new event in the `DockPanel`: `ActiveAutoHideContentChanged`. You could then track the last autohide content on your own and when the event is raised you know that #3 is occurring if the new value is not null and #4 is occurring if the last known value was not null.
Feel free to open a request on GitHub to have the event added.
Problem
Working with DockState and AutoHide, I am looking for the following things: - Find out if the DockContent is in AutoHide mode - Ability to toggle between 'regular' and AutoHide mode. - Trigger an event when an AutoHide dock has come into view. - Trigger an event when an AutoHide dock has 'left' and is now docked back into it's tab. Answer Wiki: IsAutoHide - get: ``` private WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking.DockState[] AutoHideStates = new WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking.DockState[] { WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking.DockState.DockBottomAutoHide, WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking.DockState.DockLeftAutoHide, WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking.DockState.DockRightAutoHide, WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking.DockState.DockTopAutoHide }; public bool IsAutoHide { get { return AutoHideStates.Contains(DockContent.DockState); } } ``` IsAutoHide - set: No code yet - basically iterate through the modes or use a dictionary of interchangable modes (i.e. DockBottomAutoHide to DockBottom) I have no idea, but this looks interesting, might have the idea. - I have no idea.