Managing windows and panes

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Tabbed windows

The GenWise IDE uses tabbed windows, also often referred to as pages, in its central working area. Multiple instances of editors such as the standard Template Options Page, the Source Editor, the WebForm Designer, and all Database Repository designers can be opened simultaneously this way.

You can switch between editors by clicking their tabs.

Use Ctrl+Tab (standard key combination for multiple document interfaces) to switch between windows (tabbed pages) that have been opened in the central area of the IDE.

The order of tabs can be changed by dragging tabs from one position in the row of tabs to another position.

The central working area may be divided into two vertically or horizontally split groups of tabbed windows. This visual organization is started by dragging one of the tabs away from the row of tabs, and choosing New Vertical Tab Group or New Horizontal Tab Group from the context menu after dropping it. After the division has been created, tabs can be dragged from one row of tabs to another.

Docking windows

The Project Explorer, all tool windows of the Source Editor and the WebForm Designer and various other windows are treated as docking windows.

Move a docked window by dragging its title bar or by dragging its tab-holder at the bottom.

Dragging the title bar will move all docked windows that are occupying the same space (as tabs) in the IDE.

Dragging the tab-holder at the bottom will move a single tabbed docked window, leaving the other ones where they are.

When dragging of a window in the IDE starts, arrows are displayed signifying parts where the window may be docked. Release the mouse over one of these arrows to dock the window in the part of the IDE that the arrow points to.

Drop a window on the title bar of another docked window to add it as a tabbed docked window in that position.

Drop a window anywhere to turn it into a floating, non-docked window.