Move and resize windows - Isogen - Help

The Drawing Areas, Material List, Cut List, Weld List, and Attributes Grid windows in the Drawing Setup Tool work slightly differently than windows in other applications. These windows can be displayed, hidden, docked, maximized, tabbed, or made to float.

The following tips will 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 automatically hide a window

1. Click 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 Drawing Areas window and a view with the window placed on the application border.

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 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, it displays as shown in the example below.

  

  Drag the window over one of the 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 will appear. The example below illustrates the relationship between the icon and docking location. The shaded blue box provides a preview of how the docked window will appear.