Dockable Views and Editors

All the Oxygen views available in the Editor Perspective, XSLT Debugger Perspective and XQuery Debugger Perspective are dockable. You can drag them to any margin of another view or editor inside the Oxygen window to form any desired layout. Also a view can be set to a floating state to enable it to hover over other views and editors.

To gain more editing space in the Oxygen window, set one or more views to the auto hide state: only the title always remains visible, attached to one of the margins of the Oxygen window, while the rest of the view gets restored only when the mouse pointer hovers over the title or when you click the title. The view becomes hidden again when the mouse pointer goes out of the screen area covered by that view.

The editing area can be divided vertically in several editing panels by dragging the title of an editor inside the editing area and dropping it when the frame of the dragged editor is painted in the desired position. In the following figure, you can see how to unsplit the editing area by dragging the title of the personal.xml editor panel over personal-schema.xml until the drop frame painted in dark gray covers all the personal-schema.xml editor panel and then dropping it.
You can split the editing area by drag and drop of the editor title:

All the opened editors can be tiled horizontally/vertically or stacked together using actions from Window menu : Tile Editors Horizontally, Tile Editors Vertically, Stack Editors. When several tiled editors exist, and action Synchronously scrolling (from the same Window menu) is enabled, when scrolling inside one editor all other editors will also scroll.

Also the editing area can be divided vertically and horizontally with the split / unsplit actions available on the Split toolbar and the Window menu: Split horizontally, Split vertically, Unsplit.

The editor can be maximized or restored(same action as double click on the editor tab) by using the Maximize/Restore Editor Area action from the Window menu.

The tab strip is scroll-wheel sensitive, i. e. when there are more documents open than fit in the tab strip, the scroll wheel could be used to scroll left/right as is currently accomplished with the two arrows at the right. However that is not necessary for switching to other edited file as the following shortcuts can be used to display a small popup window that cycles through all opened files: Ctrl-F6 (Meta-F6 on Mac OS X) and Ctrl-Shift-F6 (Meta-Shift-F6 on Mac OS X).

The default layout of any of the Editor Perspectives, XSLT Debugger Perspective and XQuery Debugger Perspective can be restored at any time with the Reset Layout action found in the Window menu.

Any Oxygen view or toolbar can be opened at any time from the menu items available in the menus Window > Show View and Window > Show Toolbar . The current (focused) dockable view is made invisible (switched to hidden state) with the shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+F4) (Meta+Shift+F4) on Mac OS X). The users who prefer the keyboard instead of the mouse may find this shortcut a faster way of closing a view than clicking the Close button from the title bar of the view. The complementary action (opening a view with a shortcut) requires setting a custom shortcut for each view in the Menu Shortcut Keys preferences.