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Docking

The panels around the canvas are not fixed. You decide where each one sits, how it shares its place with others, and whether it floats over the workspace. This page explains the words; the steps are in Arranging your workspace.

Dock

To dock a panel is to give it a place in the workspace: along the left, right or bottom edge, or beside another panel. A docked panel has its own title bar, and the thin line between it and its neighbour is a divider you can drag. The panels you start with are docked: the canvas in the middle, Thinky on the left, the Inspector on the right, Proposals and the Live Stream along the bottom.

Stack and tabs

When you put one panel where another already is, you choose how they share it:

  • Stacked: you drop the panel beside the other, on any of its four sides. Both stay in view, each with its own title bar.
  • Tabbed: you drop the panel on the other's title bar. The two share one place and one title bar, and each panel's name is a tab. This is a tab group. Only one tab shows at a time; the tabs slide apart while you drag to show where the new one will go.

The choice is yours each time. OpenX has no rule about which panels belong together, so the Inspector can sit beside the Live Stream, under Thinky, or in a tab group with the canvas.

See the place before you drop

While you drag a panel, a box shows exactly where it will land. Nothing moves until you let go, and Escape at any time leaves everything as it was. A panel never shrinks below the size it needs.

Float

A floating panel sits over the workspace instead of in its grid. Choose Float in the panel's menu. A floating panel stays inside the window, even when the window gets smaller, and it keeps its own title bar. Drag that title bar to move the panel and it stays floating where you drop it; to dock it again, drop it on one of the small guides that show while you drag, or choose a place from Move to.

A panel brought back from the View menu opens floating at the right, so it is never hidden behind the others.

Move to

Every drag has a keyboard twin. Move to in a panel's menu lists every place a drag could put the panel: each edge, beside another panel on each side, or as a tab with it. It does the same thing as a drag, so you can arrange the whole workspace without a mouse. See Keyboard Shortcuts.

Maximise

A docked panel can fill the whole workspace for a while: double-click its title bar, choose Maximise in its menu, or point at it and press Shift+Space. Doing it again puts every panel back exactly where it was, the tab each group showed included. A maximise is only a view: it is never kept as your layout, so reloading the page shows your panels as they were. See Panel controls.

Close and collapse

Every panel can be closed, the canvas included. Close removes a panel from view and never its work: a draft you were typing is still there when it comes back, and the Live Stream shows what it was showing. Each panel has a way back; see Getting a panel back.

Collapse is smaller than close. It folds a side down to a thin strip and keeps your place: the panel stays where it was, with what it showed and where you had scrolled to, and opens again at the size it had. A collapsed Live Stream stops drawing new events and shows the newest when it opens.

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