Dockable Views and Editors

All the Oxygen XML Developer views available in the Editor Perspective, XSLT Debugger Perspective, and XQuery Debugger Perspective are dockable. You can drag them to any margin of another view or editor inside the Oxygen XML Developer window to form any desired layout. Once you create a layout that suites your needs, you are able to save it from Window > Save Layout.... Oxygen XML Developer creates a layout file containing the preferences of the saved layout. To load a layout go to Window > Load Layout..., or to reset it select Window > Reset Layout. A view can also be set to a floating state which means that it can hover over other views and editors.

To gain more editing space in the Oxygen XML Developer window, set one or more views to the auto hide state, this way only the title remains visible, attached to one of the margins of the application window, while the rest of the view is restored only when the mouse pointer hovers over the title or when you click it. The view becomes hidden again when the mouse pointer goes out of the screen area covered by that view.

The editors can be arranged side by side or one on top of another by dragging the corresponding editor tab in the desired position. In the following figure, you can see how to unsplit the editing area by dragging the editor title tab of personal.xml over personal-schema.xml until the drop frame painted in dark gray covers the personal-schema.xml editor panel and then dropping it.

You can split the editing area by drag and drop of the editor:

All the opened editors can be tiled horizontally/vertically or stacked together in Editor Perspective or in Database Perspective using actions from the Window menu: Tile Editors Horizontally, Tile Editors Vertically, Stack Editors. Tiled editors can be scrolled together by enabling the Synchronous scrolling action (from the same Window menu).

The editing area can also be divided vertically and horizontally using the actions available on the Split toolbar and the Window menu: Split horizontally, Split vertically, Unsplit.

The editor can be maximized or restored (same as double clicking the editor tab) by using the Maximize/Restore Editor Area action from the Window menu.

When the opened documents titles do not fit in the tab strip, the scroll wheel can be used to scroll the editor title tabs to the left or right the same way the two arrows on the right are acting. The following shortcuts can be used to switch between edited files: Ctrl-F6 (Meta-F6 on Mac OS X) and Ctrl-Shift-F6 (Meta-Shift-F6 on Mac OS X). These shortcuts display a small popup window that cycles through all opened files.

The default layout of any of the Editor Perspectives, XSLT Debugger Perspective and XQuery Debugger Perspective can be restored at any time with the Reset Layout action found in the Window menu.

Any Oxygen XML Developer view or toolbar can be opened at any time from the Window > Show View and Window > Show Toolbar menus. The current (focused) dockable view is made invisible (switched to hidden state) using the shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+F4) (Meta+Shift+F4) on Mac OS X). The users who prefer to use the keyboard instead of the mouse may find this shortcut to be a faster way of closing a view than clicking the Close button from the title bar of the view. The complementary action (opening a view with a shortcut) requires setting a custom shortcut for each view in the Menu Shortcut Keys preferences.