DockStudioXP [2.0 Single-User, Upgrade Win32]

Visual Styles

• Office97, 2000, XP, Visual Studio.NET and Office 2003 visual styles;
• Automatic image generation for disabled/hot/pressed buttons. Can be individually overriden;
• Drop shadows (XP and Office 2003 Style);
• Small, medium and large icon collections;
• Blended grayscale disabled icon option;
• Inbuilt support for Most Recently Used lists;
• Inbuilt support for Window lists;
• Full support for 256 color modes (commonly used over terminal services).

Tool Types

• Command button;
• Edit (Text Box);
• Combo Box;
• Popup Menu;
• Fly-out Toolbar;
• Split Popup Button;
• Custom Popup (containing a custom form);
• MRU List (self managing);
• Window List (self managing);
• Label;
• Progress.

Bar Types

• Menu;
• Toolbar;
• Status Bar;
• Context Menus;
• Menu and tool bars can be floating, or docked to any part of the form border using drag and drop;

Docking Windows

• Dock to any side of the application window;
• Dock multiple windows in the same location to create Visual Studio.NET style Tab-docked windows;
• DockWindows can be collapsed to buttons (ala Visual Studio.NET);
• Collapsed DockWindows can be grouped (ala Visual Studio.NET);
• Visual Studio.NET, Windows XP Themed, Office XP, VB6, Visual C++ and Visio 2003 styles;
• Control DockWindow state programmatically.

Integrated document management

• Integrated support for SDI, MDI and Tabbed MDI document views;
• Tab grouping support for Tabbed MDI mode, as implemented in Visual Studio.NET;
• Drag and drop re-ordering of document tabs;
• In Tabbed MDI mode, documents can be repositioned for side by side editing into logical groups, in any position, simply by dragging a tab into the desired position.

Visual layout designer

• Fully visual designer;
• Drag and drop tools to compose tool layout;
• Drag and drop DockWindows at design time to design layout;
• Organize complex lists by category or tool type;
• Customizable property page size;
• CSS-like style organisation makes it easy to apply and modify tool styles and properties;
• Style manager to easily switch between overall styles;
• Code generation for commonly used events and enumerations (Visual Basic 6, VB.NET, C# and Visual C++)
• Integrated image editor;
• Integrated image capture tool (for easily capturing tool images).

Layout Persistence

• Save and load layouts to/from multiple formats (XML, binary, resource files and UUEncoded strings);
• Selectively load and save aspects of the layout (command bars, dock window state etc.).

On-line help and samples

• Comprehensive on-line help;
• Full reference and conceptual information;
• Example code;
• Illustrative sample projects.
• Dynamic help available from the visual layout designer.

Comprehensive object model

• Rich object model;
• Programmatic access to both layout and dock state of tools and DockWindows;
• CSS-like style organisation;
• Innovative local/global event model.

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.

Document management
Take the pain out of managing the client area of your application by using the inbuilt document management features in DockStudioXP. Choose between SDI, MDI or Tabbed MDI, or control your own client area control by using the intuitive resize event model.
MDI document windows are fully supported, including the new 'Tabbed MDI' style implemented in Visual Studio.NET.
Tabbed MDI mode supports "tab grouping" through the use of document groups and drag and drop positioning.
This allows the users of your application to reposition their documents for side by side editing into logical groups, in any position, simply by dragging a Tab into the desired position.
Document groups and document ordering can all be controlled programmatically through the comprehensive DockStudioXP object model.

Runtime customisation
Give your end-users the ability to fully customize your applications Toolbars without a single line of code.
DockStudio also ships with a set of companion controls to assist you in 'rolling your own' customize dialogs, should you need a feature not exposed by the default implementation.

Comprehensive on-line help
The comprehensive on-line context sensitive help provided with DockStudioXP gives you instant access to both reference and conceptual information whilst you are working. Get started quickly by walking through the provided samples.

Other Features
Other features include Animated Menus, a CSS-like style hierarchy and much, much more.

• Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP