Auto-hiding Interface Windows
Advance Design offers a simple approach to managing your workspace through the auto-hide feature available for key interface windows: Project Browser, Properties Window, and Command Line.
This functionality allows you to maintain an organized workspace while ensuring these tools are accessible.
Enabling Auto-Hide command
Each interface window, when docked, includes a pin button on its title bar. This button allows you to activate or deactivate the auto-hide command for that window.
- Pin Button: Located on the title bar of each window for easy access to the auto-hide functionality.
Pin button for interface components
How Auto-Hide Works
- Auto-Hide Activation: Clicking the pin button changes the window from always visible to auto-hide mode, and vice versa.
- Auto-Hide Mode: In this mode, the window is hidden and replaced by a tab-like bar along the edge of the graphic area (top, bottom, left, right). The bar displays the name of the auto-hidden window.
Auto-hide mode
- Accessing Hidden Windows: Hovering over the tab bar causes the auto-hidden window to appear in floating mode, next to the auto-hide bar.
- Restoring Windows: To return a floating window to its docked, always-visible state, click the pin button again. The interface window will dock in its original position (before switching to auto-hide mode).
Note: When two or more windows are grouped in a multi-tabbed window, they will be displayed as adjacent tabs when in auto-hide mode. The window corresponding to the visible tab in the unpinned group is displayed as the main tab with the window name on it:
Adjacent tabs in auto-hide mode
This auto-hide feature ensures that Advance Design users can maintain an organized workspace while keeping essential tools within easy reach.