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.

For gaining more editing space in the <oXygen/> window you should set one or more views to the auto hide state: only the title will remain always visible, attached to one of the margins of the <oXygen/> window, the rest of the view will be restored only by the mouse pointer hovering over the title or clicking the title. The view will become 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 attached 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 grey covers all the personal-schema.xml editor panel and then dropping it.

 

Figure 3.8. Split the editing area by drag and drop of the editor title

Split the editing area by drag and drop of the editor title


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 default layout of any of the Editor Perspective, XSLT Debugger Perspective and XQuery Debugger Perspective can be restored at any time with the action Restore Layout of the Perspective menu.

Any <oXygen/> view or toolbar can be opened at any time from the menu items available in the menus PerspectiveShow View and PerspectiveShow Toolbar