LayoutContent

• LayoutContent (Definition) : LayoutElement
• LayoutElement (Diagram)
• Base class of the LayoutAnchorable and LayoutDocument classes.

Interfaces

• ILayoutElementForFloatingWindow
• ILayoutPreviousContainer
• IComparable
• IXmlSerializable

Property IsActive

Gets or sets whether the content is active.

Only one LayoutContent can be active in a DockingManager. When setting this property, make sure this LayoutContent is already added to its parent or the parent won't be able to set its other children IsActive property to false. For example, the DockingManager contains 2 LayoutAnchorablePanes and each of them contains 2 LayoutAnchorables. Only 1 of the 4 LayoutAnchorable will have its IsActive property true ; the last one that was clicked, or got focus.

Property IsSelected

Gets or sets whether a content element is selected.

Many LayoutContents could be selected in a DockingManager. For example, the DockingManager contains 2 LayoutAnchorablePanes and each of them contains 2 LayoutAnchorables. Each of the LayoutAnchorablePanes will have one of its chidren selected. So there will be 2 LayoutAnchorables having their IsSelected property true; the selected ones in each of the LayoutAnchorablePane.

Properties

Property	Description
CanClose	Gets or sets whether the content can be closed definitively (removed from the layout and not just hidden).
CanFloat	Gets whether the content can be moved to a floating window.
Content	Gets or sets the content of the LayoutContent instance.
ContentId	Gets or sets the ID of the content, which is used to identify the content during serialization/deserialization.
FloatingHeight	Gets or sets the height that will be initially used when the content is dragged and then displayed in a floating window.
FloatingLeft	Gets or sets the left edge of a floating window that will contain this content.
FloatingTop	Gets or sets the top edge of a floating window that will contain this content.
FloatingWidth	Gets or sets the width that will be initially used when the content is dragged and then displayed in a floating window.
IconSource	Gets the icon source of the content (displayed next on the tab).
IsActive	Gets or sets whether the content is active.
IsEnabled	Gets or sets if the LayoutDocument or LayoutAnchorable is Enabled. Default is True.
IsFloating	Gets or sets whether the content is in a floating window.
IsLastFocusedDocument	Gets whether the content is the last focused document.
IsMaximized	Gets or sets whether a content element is maximized.
IsSelected	Gets or sets whether a content element is selected.
LastActivationTimeStamp	Gets or sets the date and time of the last activation of the content.
Parent	Gets or sets the parent container of the element. (Inherited from AvalonDock.Layout.LayoutElement)
PreviousContainerIndex	Gets or sets the index of the previous container.
Root	Gets or sets the root of the element. (Inherited from AvalonDock.Layout.LayoutElement)
Title	Gets or sets the title of the content.
ToolTip	Gets or sets the tooltip of the content.

Events

Event	Description
Closed	Raised when the content is closed (i.e., removed definitively from the layout).
Closing	Raised when the content is about to be closed (i.e. removed definitively from the layout).
IsActiveChanged	Raised when the IsActive property has changed.
IsSelectedChanged	Raised when the IsSelected property has changed.
PropertyChanged	Raised when a property has changed. (Inherited from AvalonDock.Layout.LayoutElement)
PropertyChanging	Raised when a property is about to change. (Inherited from AvalonDock.Layout.LayoutElement)

Methods

Method	Description
Close	Close the content.
CompareTo	Compares the content of the current instance with the content of the specified object. If it the content cannot be compared, the titles are compared.
Dock	Re-dock the content to its previous container.
DockAsDocument	Dock the content as document.
Float	Programmatically creates a floating window of the content.
GetSchema	Returns null.
ReadXml	Reads serialized layout information using the specified XmlReader.
WriteXml	Writes serialized layout information using the specified XmlWriter.

Derived Classes

• LayoutAnchorable
• LayoutDocument