[bt-devel] Floating View windows: quite sophisticated

[Wolfgang Stradner D]

Hi Jaak,

Concerning your question about what I tried to explain about the 
position of the 3 tool windows (bookshelf, bookmarks, mag) which can be 
activated in menu/View:

What was difficult for me, was to understand, how the system works to 
position those windows within BibleTime (=BT).

Checking in the Handbook, I did not find an explanation of the system.

Then trying it out myself, I found the following:
There are 3 kinds of positions
- inside/outside BT: The symbole right of the x in each toolwindow 
allows to toggle between those 2 options,
- inside piled up (with a name tab to choose between the members of the 
pile),
- inside seperated (one below/above or side by side(.

When any of the inside position is chosen (piled up or separated), there 
are four variations possible:
- left of the text window (the position which was the default in older 
BT versions)
- right of the text window
- above of the text window
- below of the text window

All three kinds positions (together with the inside positions) can be 
combined.

To change positions is done by using
- the inside/outside button within each tool window (left of the x 
button) and/or
- to drag the tool window by its title bar into any inside position.

This system works well, and allows to create hundreds of combinations.

My concern for beginning users of BT is, that they get confused by this 
great variety of possibilities, and therefore I stated the request:

to allow
- to switch off this choice of positions and have the original position 
(left of the text windows) as in older version of BT or
- to make a choice of a special position, and then fix it, so that it 
cannot change accidentally to a different position so that the beginning 
user, who does not know, how this system works, gets confused.

On 09/02/2010 07:28 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> On 02.09.2010 13:42, Wolfgang Stradner D wrote:
>    
>> In menu View there are three options: Show bookshelf, Show bookmarks,
>> Show mag,
>> which can be switched on/off individually. At the same time, they can be
>> pulled
>> around on the screen, even separated from the main BibleTime main window
>> (float
>> around), and then fit in in different places (e.g. above the main window.
>>
>> This system is quite sophisticated, particularly if you use the button
>> left of
>> the close button (x) of each of those toolwindows, and then, when you
>> let it
>> drop on the titlebar of the text window.
>>      
> I'm sorry I didn't understand you about the click and drop of that button.
>
>    
>> Is there an tool in BibleTime to switch this 'window-floating-option' off?
>>      
> No. Personally I don't see why we should have such an option.
>
> Best regards,
> Jaak
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