Addin dockable in Enterprise Architect

Question

I'm developing an Add-in in C# for Enterprise Architect, when user selects a menu item then a WPF GUI will pop-up.

How can I make this WPF GUI to dock (using docking) on Enterprise Architect GUI? Can I make the add-in GUI dockable?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use Repository.AddTab() or Repository.AddWindow() depending if you want your window to show up in the main diagram part, or as a regular docked window

From the manual:

AddTab (string TabName, string ControlID)

activeX custom control

Notes: Adds an ActiveX custom control as a tabbed window. Enterprise Architect creates a control and, if successful, returns its Unknown pointer, which can be used by the caller to manipulate the control.

Parameters:

TabName: String - used as the tab caption ControlID: String - the ProgID of the control; for example, "CS_AddinFramework.UserControl1"

AddWindow (string WindowName, string ControlID)

Notes: Adds an ActiveX custom control as a window to the Add-Ins docked window. Enterprise Architect creates a control and, if successful, returns its Unknown pointer, which can be used by the caller to manipulate the control.

Parameters:

WindowName: String - used as the window title ControlID: String - the ProgID of the control; for example, "CS_AddinFramework.UserControl1"

You might need to wrap your WPF window into a Winforms Control in order to allow EA to create it as an ActiveX control.

This is an example of an add-in I wrote: the EA Navigator