Displaying contents in panes

Panes offer a range of options for important on-screen information. Panes can be set to auto hide, they can be docked, and they can be floating.

Auto hide

Auto hide means when the cursor rolls over the tab for the pane, the pane contents of the tab will appear. Any pane with the tag icon can be set to auto hide. The pane will auto hide once more, when the cursor is moved outside the boundaries of that pane. A pane in auto hide mode can be identified by the tab to the side or to the bottom of the UI window. The tab is labeled by the name of the pane. If the pane contents appears in auto hide mode, the tag icon points to the left.

Docking panes

Docked panes are permanently visible. The tag icon points down, if a pane is docked.

To dock a floating pane, do the following:

1. Point to the floating pane header holding the left mouse button pressed, and start dragging the pane.
   Light-blue docking area indicators appear anywhere, where docking is possible. Docking is possible, for example, at the four borders of the main window and in its middle, or to another floating window.
   
2. Drag the header of the floating window until the cursor covers one of the docking area indicators.
   The floating pane appears translucent, while a blue area indicates the new docking area.
3. To dock the pane to this area, release the mouse button over the docking area indicator.

Stacking panes

You can stack more than one pane and use tabs everywhere you need it.

To stack a floating pane as another tab to any other docked or floating pane, drag its header to the middle of the docking area indicator, which is shaped like a three-tabbed window and release the mouse button there.

To change to another pane you click the tab.

Floating panes

Floating a pane makes it possible to move it outside the main software window, for example, for display on a second monitor. You may consider, for example, to keep several module views as floating windows for comparison.

To make a docked pane floating, click the header of the pane, then drag and drop it anywhere on the screen.

Closing panes

To close a pane point to the pane header and click its Exit button.