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SmartPlant Foundation / SDx Version
10
I-Configure Version
6.0(2016)
Isogen Version
13.0(2016)
Smart Isometrics Version
7.2
Spoolgen Version
9.2

In Spoolgen, windows organize the information you view about the pipeline. The software uses windows to provide a concise listing of pipeline data and to display the results of specific operations, such as component attribute information. Whereas you can use the View menu to display and hide the Pipeline Explorer and Properties window, the software controls the display of the Errors window, opening it whenever an error occurs during an operation.

Moving and Resizing Windows

The Pipeline Explorer, Properties, and Errors windows in Spoolgen work slightly differently than windows in other applications. These windows can be displayed, hidden, docked, maximized, tabbed, or made to float.

Use the following tips to help you manage windows effectively. As you are moving windows, remember that it is the placement of the cursor, not the window, that indicates where you are placing the window you are dragging. Look for the blue shadow indicator box that shows you where the window will be placed when you release the mouse button.

To display or hide the Pipeline Explorer or a window

Open the View menu, and click the window name. A check mark beside the name of a window indicates that it is open and visible in the Spoolgen interface.

You cannot use the View menu to show and hide the Errors window.

To automatically hide a window

  1. Click the AutoClose button in the top right corner of a docked window. The window is placed vertically on the application border on the side to which it was docked.

  2. Move your cursor over the window name on the border to display the window, temporarily, where it was previously displayed. As you move your cursor away, the window automatically hides again.

The following illustration shows a normal view of the Pipeline Explorer and a view with the window placed on the application border.

Pipeline Explorer Normal to Tabbed

To turn off Auto-Hide mode

  1. Place your cursor on the window name to show the hidden window.

  2. When the window appears, click the SPIso ICON Auto Hide Off button to place it where it was previously docked.

To undock a window

  • Double-click the title bar of a docked window to undock it and display it as a floating window.

To maximize a window

  • Double-click a floating, undocked window to dock it against the top border of the software window. This action maximizes the window as much as possible considering the placement of other tool and list view windows.

    If windows are already docked along the top border of the software and there is no open space along the border, then you cannot maximize another window. As long as some portion of the top border does not have a window docked against it, you can minimize a new window, and the software will place it in that open space.

To dock a floating window

  • Click and drag the title bar of the floating window to dock it. As you begin to drag a docking window, the Spoolgen window displays as follows:

    Dock Controls

    Drag the window over one of the Docking Icon icons. Each icon docks the window in a different location: top, bottom, left or right. As the cursor passes over an icon, a blue box displays, showing you how the docked window displays.

    Docked Window Preview

    SHARED Tip You can dock the window to an exterior application border in Spoolgen or adjacent to another docked window.

Create tab windows from multiple tool windows

  1. Drag one docking window over another, to display the following icon:

    Dock Control Tabbed

  2. Pass the cursor over the Tabbed Button icon, to dock the window as a tab of the currently docked window.

Additionally, you can click and drag a floating tool window until the cursor touches the title bar of another tool window. A blue box displays, showing you a window with a tab at the bottom of the second window.