fwiw, I second this suggestion David. I think it would be a nice enhancement. I would like to add that although the dock status could be locked that the form itself could still be resized by dragging its borders :)


>David,
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>>That should be handled by the app help file and end user training.
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>Let's modify the use case to say: "to provide the benefits of a docked environment and be able to lock or unlock the configuration programmatically once docked"
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>Another option on the dockable property would support this:
>0 - Docking not supported
>1 - Participates in docking, but not dockable
>2 - Participates in docking, and is dockable
>3 - Lock current docking status && new option
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>Then, switching programmatically between 3 and 4, we could control positioning and layout of forms, but lock the layout (and optionally give certain users the ability to undock).
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>After all, we now have anchors to dynamically reposition items on a resize, but we don't also give the user the ability to drag the controls all over the page to break the anchored configurations.
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>>>The use case is to provide the benefits of a docked environment without allowing the less-than-power-users to become confused and entangled in how to re-dock it when they mess it up.