Disable Floating Panels

Epicor ERP 10
1

Maybe I’m making this harder than it has to be. How can I prevent panels from being broken off and floating?

I’ve used some previous examples to do this on the main panels but it does seem to effect my tabs:

if(ctrl is Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.WindowDockingArea )
			{
						if((ctrl).HasChildren) 
						
						{	
							//MessageBox.Show("Has Child -"+ctrl.Name);		
							Object objDockManager  = ctrl.GetType().InvokeMember("DockManager", (BindingFlags.GetProperty |
										BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance |
										BindingFlags.IgnoreCase), null, ctrl, null);

							Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.UltraDockManager udm = (Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.UltraDockManager)objDockManager
							foreach(Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.DockableControlPane p in udm.ControlPanes )
							{
							p.Settings.AllowDragging =
							Infragistics.Win.DefaultableBoolean.False;
							p.Settings.AllowFloating = Infragistics.Win.DefaultableBoolean.False;
							p.Settings.DoubleClickAction = Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.PaneDoubleClickAction.None;
							}
						}
			}
2

Why are you doing this? Just curious

3

My users… This feature is really messing with their heads, and because
it’s touch screen it happens a lot. Hell it’s tough enough when all the
tabs and panels are always in the same spot

4

Lol they can easily reset the layout in the actions menu

5

You haven’t met the people that work here apparently…

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6

Here’s what somebody did for us to disable the floating tabs. I don’t claim to know what it all does, but I’m sure you can figure it out.

	System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlCollection control = null;
	DisableTabFloating(ref control);

private void DisableTabFloating(ref System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlCollection ctls)
{
	if (ctls == null)
	ctls = oTrans.EpiBaseForm.Controls;
	foreach (Control ctl in ctls) {
	
		if (ctl.HasChildren)
		{
		            System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlCollection ctlsChildren = ctl.Controls;
		            DisableTabFloating(ref ctlsChildren);
		}
		
		if ((ctl) is Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.WindowDockingArea) {
		
		            object objDockManager = ctl.GetType().InvokeMember("DockManager", BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.IgnoreCase, null, ctl, null);
		            // Once found get a handle to the Infragistics dock manager using relection
		            Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.UltraDockManager udm = (Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.UltraDockManager)objDockManager;
		
		            // Loop through all the panels disabling the undocking behaviour
		            foreach (Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.DockableControlPane p in udm.ControlPanes) {
		                            p.Settings.AllowDragging = Infragistics.Win.DefaultableBoolean.False;
		                            p.Settings.AllowFloating = Infragistics.Win.DefaultableBoolean.False;
		                            p.Settings.DoubleClickAction = Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.PaneDoubleClickAction.None;
		            }
		}              
	}
}
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7

Ahhh I think the pane double click action might be the ticket, thanks. Ya
Jose, giving them another step, click this menu item, is asking for ALOT
lol. Besides most times the panel floats over the menu which would make
their heads explode. Our users are the kind that aren’t aware what CAPS
lock does :disappointed_relieved:

8

this is great. i want to see if i can get it to work in E905 as this confuses many of my users.

9

FYI Brandon Anderson’s graciously shared code nails it. Thanks!

I wish Epicor had a global code store where I could put functions to be accessed globally. I find myself rewriting the same code over and over for multiple customizations.

10

I still can’t believe they have just created a lock layout check box in the options. I know how to get things back, but am always accidentally moving tabs around and it’s a PITA!

11

For future people using this code, there will be an error when compiling

The name 'BindingFlags' does not exist in the current context

Ensure that you add the following to the top of one’s code to get it to work.

using System.Reflection;

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12

I hate to be “that guy” to revive an old post, but I have to say that I absolutely LOVE this piece of code. I also added another line to disable the “pinning” action (auto-hide pin in the top right corners of the panels). That is accomplished with:

p.Settings.AllowPin=Infragistics.Win.DefaultableBoolean.False;

Now, for a question that will aid in my general sanity: I have a few users who are constantly undocking the menu from Epicor’s main window in Classic mode. How can I apply this code customization to that Main Menu screen in the Classic view? I have seen how to customize the MES Menu screen, but not the Classic Menu. Any help that can be offered on this would be much appreciated.
Jay

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13

Disable Classic :rofl:

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14

While that is ideal for most of our users, I don’t think the particular “problem users” would be able to learn the updated menu structure…too much like a social media page to maintain focus. But I’m with you, anything that I can do to show our users any type of “improvement” from our current E9 implementation is a bonus.