The library provides resizable docking control bars with expanding panes similar to Visual Studio. Using these control bars, both developer and end user can easily build the required application layout.
The appearance of the control bar is fully customizable. The Microsoft Office look is supported as well and can be changed on the fly.
Docking control bars provide the following functionality:
- Dock to a mainframe window.
- Switch to autohide mode.
- Attach to a tabbed window.
- Float in a miniframe.
- Dock to another control bar that is floating in a miniframe window.
- Free resizing.
- Load/save state from/to the Windows registry.
- It can be created with or without a caption.
- It can be dragged with or without (using a drag rectangle) context.
The advanced docking algorithms allow you to set up the docking windows as you like:
- Ability to dock several control bars to a floating miniframe window
- Ability to create nested docking containers
- Ability to make floating or non-floating (statically docked) control bars
- Customizable appearance of control bar slider