Docking Panes


Docking panes are windows that contain tools or data like other windows but attach to a parent "view" window (e.g., Image , Plot, etc.). The view window owns the docking pane, and similar pane windows may exist for different view windows. Docking panes can be docked, undocked, hidden, or reduced to a tab on the window border. How to adjust docking panes is described further down in this topic. Docking Panes are used for listing measurements, viewing the FITS image header, adjusting the image transfer function and palette and other purposes. Note that docking panes open with a default size and may be resized using the mouse pointer.

You can save or change the pane layout for a window using the Docking Pane Layout button BTN_PANE_LAYOUT.PNG on main-level Docking Panes Toolbar. Shown below are the docking panes for the Image Bar, the Image Palette and for listing photometry results. Several docking panes are shown on the Docking Panes Toolbar., to the right of the Docking Pane Layout button.

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Docking panes can be docked along a window border, closed, pinned open, floated free of their parent window, or shrunk to a tab along the window border. You can save the pane layout for a window using the Pane Layout button . The settings are applied when opening future windows of the same type.

Docking Panes are opened and closed by toggling their button on a toolbar. Pane buttons are indicated by a rectangular outline on the icon. Buttons on the docking panes allow them to be closed, aligned to a different window border, or shrunk to a tab. You also can drag them away from the window to float on the desktop. Docking panes that are tabified may be configured to open either when the mouse hovers over the tab or after clicking the tab. See the Open docking panes on hover option in the General Properties dialog.

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When each docking pane is opened the first time, it opens to use the available width or height inside its parent window. To adjust, the layout, use one of the methods, see the section Adjusting Docking Panes, below. Also see Initializing Toolbars and Docking Panes.

Docking Panes for Mira View Windows

Image Windows
Main Window
Plot Windows

Saving the Docking Pane Layout

In addition to working with each pane individually, you can work with all panes of a window at once and save the window's docking pane layout for that window. These are accomplished using theWindow > Docking Panes > Save Pane Layout command or the button on the main toolbar, as shown below. The docking panes layout for a window is not persistent and will be lost when you close the window unless you intentionally save the layout. This drop menu also appends the names of the current view window's closed panes to help you reactivate them.

The three default pane menu commands (Save, Hide, and Tabify) affect the pane layout for windows only of the type in the top-most view window. For example, if an Image Window is top-most, the Save Docking Panes command saves the pane layout for the current Image Window and all future Image Windows. For example, suppose an Image Window opens with no panes visible. Then you open the Pixel Table Pane and the vertical Palette Pane for the window. If you close this image window, the pane layout will not be saved. Since this layout has not been saved, new image windows will open without these panes visible. To make new windows open with the current pane configuration of the top-most view window, use the Save Docking Panes command.

If the Pane Menu has a separator line as shown below, then commands below the line re-open panes that were closed in the current (top-most) view window. The example below shows that the Points pane was closed for the top-most window. Clicking Open Points thus re-opens the Points pane.

Other Pane Commands and Controls

Related Topics

Contents

User Interface

Image Keys Pane

Image Cursor

Measurement Panes

Initializing Toolbars and Docking Panes

 


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