Author Topic: B6: Can floating Tool Windows be combined?  (Read 2605 times)

machish

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B6: Can floating Tool Windows be combined?
« on: June 04, 2013, 02:56:30 am »
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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

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Re: B6: Can floating Tool Windows be combined?
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2013, 11:10:09 am »
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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.

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Re: B6: Can floating Tool Windows be combined?
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2013, 12:36:39 pm »
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

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Re: B6: Can floating Tool Windows be combined?
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2013, 07:01:31 pm »
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