The library provides resizable docking control bars with expanding panes similar to Visual Studio®.  Using these control bars, both developer and end user can easy build the required application layout.

The appearance of control bar is fully customizable.  Microsoft® Office XP/2000/2003/2007 look is supported as well and can be changed on the fly.

Docking control bars provide the following functionality:

• Dock to a main frame window
• Switch to autohide mode (Professional Edition only)
• Attach to a tabbed window  (Professional Edition only)
• Float in a miniframe
• Dock to another control bar that is floating in a miniframe window (Professional Edition only)
• Free resizing
• Load/save state from/to the Windows registry
• Can be created with or without caption. The caption may have a text and may be filled with gradient color
• Can be dragged with or without (using drag rectangle) context

The advanced docking algorithms allow to set up the docking windows as you like (Professional Edition only):

• Ability to dock several control bars to a floating miniframe window
• Ability to create nested docking containers
• Ability to make floating or non-floating (statically docked) control bars
• Customizable appearance of control bar slider

Control bar can be floating and docked everywhere:

An advanced algorithms allow to set up the docking windows as you like (example of nested docking):

Context menu displays list of actions (states):