Docking proposals

This page contains summary of available informations related to implementation of advanced forms docking.

Motivation

• Arrange ever growing count of windows
• Allow to remember and fast switch layout/desktop/personality
• Allow proportional windows resizing to adapt to screens with changing size (for example remote desktop connection)

Possible features

• Hierarchical region docking
• Tabbed docking
• Animated popup forms, Able to pin forms
• Support for conjoined floating forms
• Manage layouts (save, load, switch, manage)
• Manual docking from code
• Support for multiple visual styles, link to theme manager for native look support
• Layout locking
• Title bar positioning (top, left, bottom, right, auto)

Existed solutions

For Lazarus

• Anchor Docking
• EasyDockingManager
• DoDi blog - about his docking implementation

For Delphi

• JEDI VCL Docking
• Docking on torry.net
• LMD DockingPack - commercial
• DevExpress ExBars - commercial
• AutomatedDocking(aqdocking) - commercial, not available anymore, only archive page

Tutorials:

• YouTube: [1] [2]
• Using the TDockTabSet component by Jeremy North