[wingide-users] Hiding tool boxes (was RE: Maximising editable area)

[Charles Hartman]

I like this too, since I often want to edit for a while with lots of  
room, then bring back all the little helpers.

One model to think about is Photoshop's: there, you can press the F  
key to cycle through fullscreen, fullscreen with menu bar, normal  
editing. I like that better than the OS X "Expose" model where things  
slide out of your way in a completely distracting fashion . . .

(I for one put a native Mac version ahead of *everything* else . . .)

Charles Hartman

On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Walker Hale wrote:

> I would greatly appreciate moving F1 and F2 to three-state behavior. I
> frequently want the bottom toolbox to "just go away" until needed.  
> (With 80
> column source code, I have plenty of space horizontally for tool  
> boxes on
> the side, but I want to maximize vertical space.) I can hide the  
> bottom tool
> box with the context menu, but this means taking my hands off the  
> keyboard.
> With 2.1, I can shift-F2 followed by F2 to hide just the bottom,  
> but that is
> both an extra keystroke and kind of backwards (get rid of all tool  
> boxes and
> then restore the side tool boxes in order to have the effect of  
> getting rid
> of the bottom tool box). It would be much nicer to hit F1 once or  
> twice in
> order to make the bottom tool boxes go away until needed.
>
> As for getting rid of the other decorations, I don't know how I feel.
> There's the menu bar, the document tabs, the bookmarks bar, the  
> scroll bars,
> and the status bar at the bottom. With the possible exception of  
> the menu
> bar, I'm sure that each decoration has significant numbers of  
> programmers
> that want to hide it. Maybe the best option is to add a bindable  
> command for
> each of these decorations. That way each programmer could define a  
> set of
> keys controlling those decorations that he cares about hiding.
>
> Now that I think about it, I'm really starting to like that idea. Just
> expose all the decorations through toggle commands that the users  
> can bind
> to keys. Then everybody gets what he wants without the Wingware  
> team having
> to program in behavior that tries to be a compromise between  
> everyone's
> preferences.
>
> - Walker
>
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> Support
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:04 PM
> To: Robert Leftwich
> Cc: wingide-users at wingware.com
> Subject: Re: [wingide-users] Maximising editable area
>
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Robert Leftwich wrote:
>> Is it possible to turn off the scroll bars and the editor menu area
>> (where the source index, editor option menu and the prev/next  
>> bookmark
>> arrows are
>> displayed) to maximise the editable area? (I'm using 2.1.0-b1 on  
>> Ubuntu
> 5.10).
>
> Use Maximize Editor Area in the Tools menu.  However, this doesn't  
> hide as
> much as you seem to want to hide.  Would you also want to hide the  
> notebook
> tabs, assuming you're using those?
> I ask because I'm considering making this three-state -- hide as  
> implemented
> now, hide everything, and show everything.  I just don't know how  
> to define
> "everything" for hiding more than we hide now.
>
> - Stephan
>
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