Workspace Overview

Workspace Properties
The KryptonWorkspace specific properties are shown in Figure 1.

*   Figure 1 - Workspace properties*

AllowPageDrag
A boolean property that determines if the user is allowed to drag pages in order to change the workspace layout.

AllowResizing
Determines if the user is allowed to resize cells by moving the separators that are positioned between cells. Also note that there is an AllowResizing property on each of the KryptonWorkspaceCell instances that can prevent resizing on a per-cell basis. In order to move a separator this property must be True as well as the cell on on either side of the separator.

CompactFlags
Just before the workspace is sized and positioned a compacting phase is run to optimize the structure of the workspace hierarchy definition. This set of flags determine the compacting actions that are allowed to take place. For more detail read the Compacting section that describes reach of the flags.

ContainerBackStyle
Use this style to determine the appearance of the workspace background. The background can be seen when you have no contents visible or between the cells when the separator style chooses not to draw any separator element.

ContextMenus
This is a collection of properties that specify the display text and keyboard shortcuts used for the context menu that appears when you right click a page header. Try right click on a page header in the workspace and a context menu is shown with a set of options for modifying the layout. For example you can use Move Next and Move Previous to transfer the page to the next/previous cell.

MaximizedCell
Assign a KryptonWorkspaceCell that exists inside the workspace hierarchy to order to have that cell maximized and showing as the only cell in the workspace client area. This is useful if you want to allow the user to concentrate on a single cell for a period of time. Set the property to null to remove the maximized setting.

Palette, PaletteMode
These properties allow you to define the palette for use when drawing the control. By default it will use the global palette as defined by the KryptonManager instance.

Root
This is a KryptonWorkspaceSequence instance that represents the starting point for defining the workspace definition. You can add KryptonWorkspaceCell and KryptonWorkspaceSequence instances into a sequence in order to create a tree like hierarchy. For more details you should read the Layout section followed by the related Sizing section.

SeparatorStyle
Style used for drawing the separators that exist between the individual cell entries.

ShowMaximizeButtin
Use this property to determine if an extra button should be added to each workspace cell that is used to toggle between maximized and restored states.

SplitterWidth
Pixel width of the separators that exist between the individual cell entries.

Four States
The separator can be in one of four possible states, Disabled, Normal, Tracking and Pressed. When resizing is allowed for the separator it will be in the Normal state until the user moves the mouse over the separator area at which point it enters the Tracking state. If the user presses the left mouse button whilst over the separator then it enters the Pressed state. If the workspace control has been disabled then each separator is also placed in the Disabled state.

Common State  
To speed up the customization process an extra StateCommon property has been provided. The settings from this are used if no override has been defined for the state specific entry. Note that the specific state values always take precedence and so if you define the border width in StateNormal and StateCommon then the StateNormal value will be used whenever the control is in the Normal state. Only if the StateNormal value is not overridden will it look in StateCommon..