Docking Pane for ActiveX COM ：allows you to create fully customizable docking panes with a professional and modern interface

Docking Pane for ActiveX COM

Docking Pane for ActiveX COM allows you to create fully customizable docking panes with a professional and modern interface. Windows developers can easily create tear off tabs and auto hide windows that allow for a more manageable application workspace.

Features Overview

Codejock Docking Pane for ActiveX COM provides several options to choose from including Visual Studio and Office Theme Support, Tear Off Tabs, Visio Style Docking, Sliding Auto Hide Windows, Pinnable Panes, Drag-n-Drop Positioning, Cascading Panes, Load and Save State, Full Customization and much more! Docking Pane is included with the Suite Pro for ActiveX COM evaluation.

⑴ Theme Support

Visual Studio 2015

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Visual Studio 2015 Style theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Visual Studio 2015 Style themes of any 3rd party tool available today.

Visual Studio 2012

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Visual Studio 2012 style theme support that gives your application a stunning appearance.

Visual Studio 2010

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Visual Studio 2010 Style theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Visual Studio 2010 Style themes of any 3rd party tool available today.

Visual Studio 2008

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Visual Studio 2008 Style theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Visual Studio 2008 Style themes of any 3rd party tool available today.

Office 2013

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Office 2013 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Office 2013 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Office 2013 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Office 2010

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Office 2010 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Office 2010 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Office 2010 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Office 2007

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Office 2007 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Office 2007 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Office 2007 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Office 2003

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Office 2003 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Office 2003 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Office 2003 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

DotNet Theme Support

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Visual Studio .NET theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Visual Studio .NET style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Visual Studio .NET  is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Docking Pane features DotNET Theme Support

Visual Studio Style

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Visual Studio Whidbey Style theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Visual Studio Whidbey Style themes of any 3rd party tool available today.

Visio

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides your application with full Visio theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Visio Style themes of any 3rd party tool available today.

Gripper

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides built in theme support for a gripper appearance.  You can choose this theme for a more classic windows appearance, or choose from several pre-defined theme styles created for Docking Pane.

Windows XP Theme

Codejock Software's Docking Pane's provides your application with full Windows XP theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Windows XP style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Windows XP is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Docking Pane features Windows XP Theme support

Built In Theme Support

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides built in theme support for a Default appearance.  You can choose this theme for a more classic windows appearance, or choose from several pre-defined theme styles created for Docking Pane.

Docking Pane features Default Theme support

Docking Pane Luna Colors

Docking Pane allows you to enable/disable Luna colors in your docking panes.

Office Style theme with Luna colors disabled

Office Style theme with Luna colors enabled

Themed Floating Panes

Docking Pane allows you to use themed floating frames for your floating docking panes.  Docking Pane will automatically use themed floating frames that match the currently set Docking Pane theme.

Splitter Style

Docking Pane provides you with many different themes that you can apply to the splitter of the docking panes. This will allow you to completely theme your docking panes by matching the splitter theme with the pane's theme.

3D Style

Office 2003 Style

Office XP Style

Flat Style

Flat Style

⑵ General Features

Nested Grouping

You can use Docking Pane to group windows in a tab style arrangement and display them in any arrangement docked to any side of your application workspace. The docking panes can be grouped together or docked inside one another to make the best use of available workspace.

Docking Pane supports nested grouping

Visual Studio Style Docking

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides support for Visual Studio style docking context and docking stickers.  While dragging a docking pane in your application, the alpha docking context will shade the area that the docking pane can occupy.  Docking stickers will visually display where the docking pane can be docked by displaying stickers that point to the appropriate locations.

Detachable Tab Windows

You can use Docking Pane to create tabbed dockable windows that you can locate along any side of your application workspace. These tabbed windows allow you to drag and "Tear Off" any of the individual tabs to create new windows that can either float or dock along the side of your application workspace. You can also drag and drop to combine windows which will create a new tab in each dockable window. An outline is drawn to depict where your window will be located when you tear off or combine.

Docking Pane supports Alpha Context and Docking Stickers

Splitter Tracker

Docking Pane allows you to change what your docking panes look like when they are resized.  You can use a splitter tracker that will draw an outline to depict the new size of your docking pane window or you can resize your docking panes in "real-time," instantly seeing how your new docking pane will look.

Splitter tracker enabled

Splitter tracker disabled

Visio Style Docking

Codejock Software's Docking Pane gives your application the power of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) style docking panes. You can create docking and splitting windows that are similar to Visual Studio .NET or Microsoft Visio. This gives you the ability to dock your windows to any side of your application's desktop while a visual clue is displayed representing where the docking pane will be positioned.

Docking Pane supports WYSIWYG style docking

Sliding Auto Hide Windows

Codejock Software's Docking Pane product provides Auto Hide Windows that are similar to Visual Studio.NET and Microsoft Visio application environments.  These Auto Hide Windows provide a unique way for you to make the most of your application's desktop by hiding or showing windows with simple mouse movements.  You can easily change the animation delay of the auto hide windows so your windows hide/show at the perfect speed.

Docking Pane supports auto hide windows

Auto Hide Delay

Docking Pane allows you to change the speed at which your docking panes are displayed and auto hidden.  You can easily change the delay of the auto hide windows as fast or slow as you want so your windows hide/show at the perfect speed.

Normal Animation Delay

Slow Animation Delay

Pinnable Panes

Codejock Software's Docking Pane allows you to pin to your hidden panes allowing them to stay visible. You can also press the pin to easily hide panes to allow for more area available to your workspace.

Docking Pane supports pinnable panes

Float and Dock Panes

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides support for floating and docking window panes. You can easily float your docked pane or dock your floating pane to any side of your applications workspace area, or to any side of any docking pane!

Docking Pane supports Float and Dock Panes

Auto-Hide Pinnable Floating Panes

Docking Pane allows you to pin your floating panes allowing them be hidden/visible. You can press the pin to easily hide floating panes to allow for more area available to your workspace.

Hidden Client

Docking Pane allows you to hide the client area of your application so that your docking panes can occupy the entire application workspace.

Drag-n-Drop Pane Positioning

Codejock Software's Docking Pane gives you the flexibility of drag and drop positioning. You can easily drag and drop any docking pane or tab onto any dockable area such as your application workspace or another docking pane.

Docking Pane Supports Drag-n-Drop Pane Positioning

Active Pane

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides visual clues as to which pane is currently active or has input focus. When a pane is active it caption area will highlight.  This is noticeable in both docked and floating states.

Docking Pane Supports Active Panes

Hide and Show Panes

Codejock Software's Docking Pane allows you to easily hide and show panes to optimize your application workspace.  You can hide your docked or floating panes at runtime easily by pressing the small ‘x’ located at the upper right side of the caption area.  You can also easily add commands to display and activate your panes thru your application menu.

Caption Menu Button

Codejock Software's Docking Pane allows you add a button to the caption of your panes so that you can display a custom menu. You do not have to display a menu, you can display whatever you want under the menu button. The menu button allows you to provide menu options that apply to the pane in the menu that is easy to find and use.

Cascading Panes

Codejock Software's Docking Pane provides you with the "cascading" pane navigation functionality seen in Visual Studio. When the "Maximize" button is pressed on a pane, it will cause the pane to occupy the entire area of all adjacent panes. Then the "Maximize" button will change to a "Restore" button for the currently expanded pane. When the "Restore" button is pressed, then all the panes are returned to their original size and location. This provides grouping functionality to pages that are not grouped together.

Caption Direction

Codejock Software's Docking Pane allows you to change the direction that the docking pane caption will be displayed. The pane captions can be displayed vertically or horizontally. This allows you to display the caption in the direction that best fits your application. You have the option to always display the captions vertically or horizontally, to change direction by position which will display the caption horizontally if the pane is docked to the top or bottom of the application, and to display the caption vertically if the pane is docked to the left or right of the application. You can also change the direction by the size of the pane which will display the caption horizontally if the pane's width is smaller than its height, and it will be displayed vertically if the pane's height is smaller than the pane's width.

Both horizontal and vertical caption directions

⑶ Tab Customization

Static Frame

Docking Pane allows you to add a static frame around the entire TabControl. You can easily add or remove the static frame via code.

Static frame

No Frame

Luna Colors

Docking Pane allows you to enable/disable the Luna colors when you are using a color scheme that has Luna color support, such as the Office Style color scheme.

Luna colors disabled

Luna colors enabled

OneNote Colors

Docking Pane allows you to add OneNote colors to your tabs. You can easily add or remove OneNote colors via code.

OneNote Colors enabled

OneNote Colors disabled

Show Tab Icons

Docking Pane allows you to easily show/hide icons in your tab buttons.

Tab icons hidden

Tab icons visible

Custom Tab Icons

Docking Pane allows you to add your own custom icons to your to display in your tab buttons.

Custom tab button icons support

Hot Tracking

Docking Pane allows you to easily enable/disable Hot Tracking. When you move the mouse cursor over your tabs, they will become "Hot" when Hot Tracking is enabled. This allows you to easily see which tab the mouse cursor is over.

Bold Selected Tabs

Docking Pane allows you to easily enable/disable Bold Selected tabs.  When you click on a tab, the currently selected tab caption is displayed in bold type, making it easy to see which tab is selected.

Bold selected tabs enabled

Bold selected tabs disabled

Tab Position

Docking Pane allows you to position the tabs on the top, left, bottom, or right with a single line of code. You can change the position of the tabs at any time in your program.

Tabs positioned at the top

Tab Layout

Docking Pane allows you to change the layout of your tabs with a single line of code. The tabs can be in a compressed, fixed, auto size, size to fit, multi-row, or rotated layout. You can change the layout of the tabs at any time in your program.

"Compressed" tab layout

"Fixed" tab layout

"Size-to-Fit" tab layout

Tab Appearance Styles

Docking Pane allows you to easily change the appearance of your tabs. You can choose from several built in appearances.

Tabs using the Excel appearance with Office Style coloring

Tab Color Styles

Docking Pane allows you to fully customize the appearance of your tabs by applying color styles. For your convenience, you can choose from several built in color styles. Color styles can be used with Appearance styles to give your application a unique professional look. For example, your tabs can have a Visual Studio appearance using Office Style colors.

Tabs using the Visual Studio Style and Office Style appearance

Tab Borders

Docking Pane allows you to manipulate the frame/border that surrounds the tab's client area. You can have a full border that surrounds the entire pane client area, a single line border that runs along the top of the tab panel, or you can completely remove the border.

Full Frame/Border

Single Line Frame/Border

No Frame/Border