B6: Can floating Tool Windows be combined?

[machish]

Win64:
Floating source code tabs can be combined easily by dragging one over the other. And I like how I can differentiate between dragging the title bar of the window, versus dragging the tab (although I will whine about the additional screen real estate .

But this same functionality does not seem to extend to floating Tools Windows (e.g. Output, Preview, Defs, etc.), even though I can dock them to the same part of the main window, and have tabs show up. When I drag the floating Output window over the floating Preview window, they do not get combined.

Is this By Design? Or is there an option somewhere that I'm missing?

Thanks!

-martin

[Tim Kemp]

And I like how I can differentiate between dragging the title bar of the window, versus dragging the tab (although I will whine about the additional screen real estate

You can hide the tabs in a window with zoom-window (in CUI it's Shift-Ctrl-Z). That will recover some of the real estate for you.

[Clark]

Floating MDI windows don't support docking tool windows or tool bars yet. This is not a small job but it's a high priority on our todo list. Internally, the new document tab layout code has been designed to eventually allow this.

[machish]

Tim, I'll try Zoom and see how it works out. It does have side-effects (changing the internally-subdivided panes), so I'll have to see how I like it in practice.
Clark, I'm glad to hear that it's on the todo list! I can understand that you probably won't disclose an ETA, but I'm hoping that it makes this major release.
Thanks!

-martin