How to only allow docking in main viewport (i.e., disable docking inside windows)

[ksdhans]

Version/Branch of Dear ImGui:

1.91.8-docking

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rlImGui

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Windows 10 + MSVC 2019

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By default Dear ImGUI allows any window to dock inside any other window. How can I disable docking inside one (or all windows)? What I'd like to achieve, is to allow windows to dock inside the main viewport, but NOT inside each other.

The ImGuiWindowFlags_NoDocking disables docking for a window entirely.

How can I allow a window to be able to dock, but NOT allow any window to dock inside it?

[GamingMinds-DanielC]

I can't think of any benefit from disabling the possibility to dock in secondary viewports. If you yourself don't like it, you can just not use this optional functionality. But why would you want to take that away from the users of your application?

As far as I know, limiting docking like that is currently not possible. You would have to alter ImGui sources for that. If you want to do that, look for calls to BeginDockableDragDropTarget() and make it depend on being in the main viewport.

[ksdhans]

"I can't think of any benefit from disabling the possibility to dock in secondary viewports."

It can be confusing to users if any window can be docked inside any other window. This is especially true if your users are less tech savvy.

I don't know of any app that allows unrestricted dock any window into any other window. For example, VS Code restricts where things can be dragged and dropped.

"As far as I know, limiting docking like that is currently not possible. You would have to alter ImGui sources for that."
It seems to be possible, albeit overly complicated: #3492

The solutions on that page use the unstable APIs inside imgui_internal.h. I was hoping that there would be a way that uses the stable API.

[okauert]

Version/Branch of Dear ImGui:

1.91.8-docking

Back-ends:

rlImGui

Compiler, OS:

Windows 10 + MSVC 2019

Full config/build information:

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Details:

By default Dear ImGUI allows any window to dock inside any other window. How can I disable docking inside one (or all windows)? What I'd like to achieve, is to allow windows to dock inside the main viewport, but NOT inside each other.

The ImGuiWindowFlags_NoDocking disables docking for a window entirely.

How can I allow a window to be able to dock, but NOT allow any window to dock inside it?

For me this is a very valid question! Control over docking currently seems pretty limited.

I also would like to have docking only occur for specific windows as I regard them as the docking containers. But you currently can't explicitly define docking enabled / disabled (child) windows as ImGui allows docking in ALL windows. The current flags are too rough to really get the desired control.

Docking could be used for layouting the app if it would be flexible enough. In its current state it seems you don't have enough control to define where docking might happen or not.

It would be nice if window flags could allow or disallow any docking in any single window. But such windows themselved still might be docked somewhere. Not possible ATM as it seems...