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Windows and Document Views

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The windows for the Platform Builder workspaces and document views are fully adjustable. You can position windows for a project according to your preferences, and each project can have its own settings.

The two common window types, document windows and dockable windows, have the following characteristics:

  • Document windows are normal, framed, child windows that may contain source code or document text. Within the Platform Builder window, you can change the position and size of document windows by minimizing and maximizing them or by displaying them in a cascade or tiled arrangement. To see an example of a document window, create or open a text file.

  • Dockable windows display information about a project. They attach to the borders of the application window or they float anywhere on the screen. Dockable windows have two display modes, docked mode and floating mode, which have the following characteristics:

    • In docked mode, a window is fixed to a docking area along any of the four borders of the main Platform Builder window.
    • In floating mode, a window has a thin title bar and can appear anywhere on your screen. A floating window is always on top of other windows.

    The two primary types of dockable windows are the Workspace window and the Output window. Dockable windows also include debugging windows, such as Variables and Watch.

The layout for window types — that is, their visibility, position, and size — is associated either with a project for document windows, or with editing or debugging operations, for dockable windows.

Once you have chosen a layout, the settings for that layout are retained with the project that you are working on. If you close a project and then reopen it, the document windows have the last layout that you used: This means that the same windows are open, and they have the same sizes and positions. When you create layouts of dockable windows or toolbars, either for editing, debugging, or viewing in full-screen mode, those layouts are used for all subsequent sessions until you change them.

Some windows are neither document windows nor dockable windows. For example, when you use a utility application listed on the Tools menu, such as Windows CE Remote Spy, the characteristics of its windows are determined by the utility application.

 Last updated on Friday, October 08, 2004

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