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I have created a form with a docking control on it with a docking tabs inside. When I peal out a docking tab to a floating window, and say move it over to the right.  I then close this docking tab.  But a min later i wish to reopen this tab.  What I would like is this tab to reopen at its last location. I know how to save the location information. But i don't know how to tell the tab to reopen as a floating window. 

Hi !

just a guess: maybe the "C1CommandDock.DockOrFloatChild(...)" method might help (never used it myself, but it was the only thing I found in the docs).

Best regards

Wolfgang

 Thank for the idea.  I been working in that method for a bit.  I think it more then lucky easier then I am making it.

This section of tools needs way more examples. 

Currently, i think the only way to do programmatically float a TabPage is to add the TabPage to a new DockingTab and use the method you mentioned for the CommandDock (the CommandDock cannot float a TabPage by itself)

Dim floatTab As New C1DockingTab
floatTab.TabPages.Add(C1DockingTabPage1)
C1CommandDock1.DockOrFloatChild(floatTab, New Point(x, y))

Hope that helps,
Greg L

 Thank you for your help. After a good night sleep i to came up with this solution myself. But I do thank you for your help.  I have nodest some weirdness after creating and opening of the floating tab. But i need more time to come up with more accurate descriptions of this.  But for now it does work. But I have now having trouble getting the X and Y location of this newly created floating control. Any help would be great appreciated.

>>But I have now having trouble getting the X and Y location of this newly created floating control. Any help would be great appreciated.

I'm not sure I understand.  When you create the new floating control you can set the X and Y position, as the "Point" parameter in the code above.  Does this not work for you? or are you trying to Get the X and Y coordinates of a floating tab once it's been moved?  Please clarify.

Thanks
-Greg L

Sorry if you miss understood.  Setting the x y coordinate on the creation of the floating control work correctly. But retrieving the current x y coordinate i did find a small problem.  I created a new docking control in memory, and a new DockingTab in memory. Placed a tab into the dockingtab control and then places that control into the new docking control, and set that to floating.  But when i make reference to that docking control the x y coordinate it gives me is 0 0.  But if I go to that tab that in on those controls and go to its parent parent then i get the correct x y coordinate.

Dim dockflot As New C1.Win.C1Command.C1CommandDock
Dim tabcontrol As New C1.Win.C1Command.C1DockingTab
tabcontrol.Controls.Add(Me.C1DockingTabPage2)
dockflot.DockOrFloatChild(tabcontrol, New Point(345, 262))

tabcontrol.Location.X returns 0
tabcontrol.Location.Y returns 0

C1DockingTabPage2.Parent.Parent.Location.X returns 345
C1DockingTabPage2.Parent.Parent.Location.y returns 262 

Thanks. 

In case it helps: you can use "this.Parent.PointToScreen(...)" to convert  a point to absolute screen coordinates. "PointToClient" is the other way.

Best regards

Wolfgang