How do you move these data pads around to where you need them? The default is not really convenient.
Its based on Sharp Develop designed to work like Visual Studio so try search for “visual studio ide how to move tool windows”
You grab and hang on to the Title bar … but if its a Toolbox with multiple Tabs then you grab the Tab Ear. If you release the mouse too soon you’ll have a floating Pad. Just grab it again and drag. (Sometimes it helps to first drag it off to be floating, move other things, then move the floating pad back.)
Drag to the sides or bottom and Boxes to drop on will appear. VS calls those Boxes a “Guide Diamond”.
As you hover over the top or bottom half of that Box you’ll see an outline of where the Pad will appear. When it looks right let go of the mouse button.
Below has some of info from VS including showing a “Guide Diamond”
Pin them then drag by the title bar
You can move the data pads (like Output, Errors, etc.) by dragging their tab headers to where you want them. They should snap into place along the edges or as floating windows. If the docking behaves oddly—especially on multi-monitor setups—it could be due to a known bug in the docking library used (WeifenLuo v1). Try making your left-most monitor the primary one if things aren’t docking properly.
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Example of moving Pads. At the IDE bottom I have Errors and Output as 2 tabs in one Pad. I want to see them both without Tabs.
I grab the Output Tab Ear and drag it up to make it Output floating and let go:
When I grab the Output Title Bar again and drag down over the Errors box then the “Guide Diamonds” appear.
The big blue box previews what the final window will look like when dropped. In this example my mouse is Not over the Diamonds, so if dropped its would still be a floating window.
As I drag over the Left side of the Guide Diamond the Blue Box previews that Output will snap into the Left Half of the Pad taking the full height. Moving over the Center will put it back where it was as a full width tab.
So you move until the Blue Box looks like you want then let got of the mouse.
I releaseed the mouse button and the Output is placed where the Blue Box preview was on the left half:
I grab the Center divider between Output and Errors, then Drag Left to make the Output smaller because I mainly want to see the Error List:
If I did a Find All in the Editor that Search Pad got added as another segment of the lower half:
I want Search to be a Tab along with Errors.
So I first grab the Search Results Title Bar and drag it off to be Floating and Let Go.
Then grab it again and drag down over Errors on top of the Center Guide Diamond. The Blue Box will show it spans the Errors but not Output.
I drop it there and now Search is a Tab with Errors:
Its pretty easy to learn once you start grabbing and dragging.
To recap one detail is do you grab the Title Bar or Tab Ear. Another is hover over the various Guide Diamonds until the Blue Box is right. The third is if its wrong then drag it out to be floating before restarting.
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Thanks Carl. The explanation was excellent. I now understand how the Pads work!! You need to tell Clarion to put this in their documentation.
Thanks again
To be even more specific, to avoid the bug your primary monitor must be the UPPER LEFTMOST monitor
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