On Friday 17 March 2006 11:06, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Fabian Flores wrote: > > Hi. I belong to the spanish translation team and am working on > > 0104GS-MenusAndToolbars. Under title "Using dockable/floating windows" > > appears this text: > > > > Some windows in OpenOffice.org are dockable. You can move, re-size or > > dock the window to an edge. To dock a window grab the window by the > > title bar, hold down the /Ctrl/ key and move the window to the side then > > release. To undock the window, grab the window by the title bar and move > > away from the edge. > > > > The point is that this behavior verifies in GNU/Linux but not in Windows > > (not tested on MacOS) and if this is correct, I believe that it would > > have to be indicated. > > Thanks, Fabian, for finding that. I had thought that it was just > my Windows system where it didn't work, for some reason I didn't > understand. > > I guess this is related to the use of "panes" in Impress and > Draw; the floating/dockable windows in Writer now look and act > like panes. For example, they do not have title bars when docked. > > On my Windows system (XP SP2), I dock a floating window (such as > Styles and Formatting) by grabbing it by the title bar and (not > using the Ctrl key) hovering it over an edge of the main window. > (I discovered this by accident when it kept docking when I did > not want it to.) > > The undocking procedure is wrong or at least incomplete for > Windows, because there is no title bar when the window is docked. > To undock it, I grab it by an edge and pull on the edge. > > Do these techniques work on GNU/Linux? Do they work for you in > Windows? > It seems that the behaviour is consistent in both windows and Linux. There are two main ways of docking. a)Hover the cursor over the grey area inside the border of the floating window and double click. It will remember where you last docked it. The default is on the left for Stylist and Navigator and top for tool bars. To undock do the same the ctrl+Dbl-clk is a toggle.
b) Click and drag from the title bar. When the cursor is over either the scroll bar on the right or the ruler on the left side a gray frame appears indicating you can release the mouse button. As you said the Title bar disappears. So to undock it is either necessary to drag from the gray border or ctrl+dbl-clk Floating toolbars and Navigator will dock top and bottom as well,(though I don't know why you would want to;) ) Stylist will only dock to the sides. Stylist and Navigator will also dock "stacked" in a pane fashion like the panes in impress . Just drag Navigator over the Stylist until a gray frame appears beneath the Navigator window. For some reason Stylist won't "stack" on Navigator I actually leave Stylist and navigator stacked like that and use f5 and f11 to reveal or hide. They always return to the last docked position. > I hope we'll hear from a Mac user. If not, I plan to install the > latest OOo on a Mac over the weekend, so I can test it then. > > I'll revise that part of Chapter 4 when I have more information. > > --Jean -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org Member: OpenDocument Fellowship www.opendocumentfellowship.org
