Re: Toolbar hiding and Editor arranging -- WDSCI-L

Hiding the toolbar doesn't appear to be a perspective level setting, but an
overall one instead. Can anyone verify they are seeing the same behavior?
Open a couple of members in the LPEX editor, and open a couple of local
text files in the text editor. Hide the toolbar. As you switch between
the LPEX tabs the toolbar stays hidden. But as soon as you go to one of
the text tabs, it reappears. Same thing happens going the other way too.
Appears to be a bug to me.

As far as splitting the editor area, Thank You Chris!! I didn't realize
that we can now put editor tabs and view tabs in the same pane. Don't
think it has always been that way, but don't know how many releases back
that goes. I don't need to keep a non-editor tab there since I have a
scratch pad text file I always keep open for jotting down notes.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Hiebert, Chris <
chris.hiebert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

-- The first is trying to hide the toolbar.
There is a huge selection of customization options in the "Customize
Perspective" window. Window->Customize Perspective.

You may be able to setup your desired tool by using the "Filter by action
set" checkbox and setting which tool bars show up for each action set.

-- Prior to 9.1, dragging an editor tab to the side split the editor area
and all was well.

You can reproduce this behavior in 9.5.0.2.

The trick is to drag one of the other UI elements into the space where you
want to have your second panel.

I've gotten this to work by using the "Remote Scratchpad" tab.
Click and drag that tab until it resides in the space where you want the
editor to appear.
Once you let it go, you should get the left and right planes with the
editors in one side and the Remote Scratchpad tab in the other side.

Next you just drag one of your open editors into the tab group with the
Remote Scratchpad.
Once the editor is in the tab group you could move the Remote Scratchpad
back to where it was before, but If you do this then the tab group will
disappear as soon as you close the editor.

To keep the tab group around you have to leave a non-editor tab in it.

Also, I highly suggest you set this up and then run a "Save-As" for the
entire perspective. This will allow you to do a soft reset by closing the
perspective and reopening it.
The reason I suggest doing the save is because this type of manipulation
of the UI is sometimes error prone. If you are constantly dragging elements
in and out your perspective could become corrupted and not display item
correctly, or it could have hidden elements that you are unable to access.
The soft reset alleviates some of these issues by allowing you to close and
reopen a desired perspective.

I currently have a number of RSE perspectives setup including Spanning 2
monitors, Spanning Extra wide monitors, and for Using a Single monitor.

Chris Hiebert
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author
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