I've got the following:
NDockingPanel
<Calculate newwidth and newheight for panel>
panelWindow.FloatingSize = pwSize;
panelWindow.TabInfo.AutoHideSize = pwSize;
panelWindow.SizeInfo.PreferredSize = pwSize;
<fill out rest of panelWindow etc.>
panelWindow.float();
I'm trying to calculate the appropriate size of the panel before calling the float method. I know what the client dimensions of the floated window need to be and I want to add to this the needs for the borders and caption text like so:
Width = ClientWidth + frameAppearance.LeftBorder + frameAppearance.RightBorder;
Height = ClientHeight + frameAppearance.BottomBorder + frameAppearance.CaptionHeight;
How can I get the NFrameAppearance used by floated panels? It seems its close to
NFrameAppearance frameAppearance = NUIManager.GetPredefinedFrame(PredefinedFrame.Simple)
but that's not it exactly. It's not NUIManager.FrameAppearance either. I've looked but I haven't discovered a way to query these dimensions. Thanks for any thoughts on how to do this.
Seems you're suggesting I get the size, create the panel, add it to its host, float it, query what the panel dimensions are, set the panel floating size again, and then float the panel again. That almost worked but I found there still appeared to be a problem with the height and I experimented a bit with that idea but it led to more questions.
Thanks though. I think I'm going to give up on this issue. Perhaps at some point you can add the ability to return the NFrameAppearance for a floated panel in a future release.