| Easiest way of making the Navigator bar appear and disappear [message #208757] |
Thu, 03 May 2007 06:47  |
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Sometimes I want it there, sometimes I don't. I expected to be able to click
minimize or dock or something and have it go mostly away, leaving just a
little something that I could click on it and get the navigator window back.
But minimizing it leaves it still taking up a fair amount of space. If I
close it, then select Show View -> Navigator, the window comes back to about
where it was, but it now covers part of the edit window. I have to click on
it and move it around until it clicks into place.
So I came up with this:
With the navigator bar there, I do a
Window->Save Perspective as SomeNameWithNav
Now I x out the navigator panel and do a Window->Save Perspective as
SomeNameWithOutNav
Now right click on the little yellow + up in the upper right hand corner of
the eclipse screen and open SomeNameWithNav. Now I have two cfeclipse
perspective tabs that I can click or Ctr F8 to move between. Is that the
best way to do what I want?
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| Re: Easiest way of making the Navigator bar appear and disappear [message #208906 is a reply to message #208834] |
Fri, 04 May 2007 00:01  |
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"Eric Rizzo" <eclipse5@rizzoweb.com> wrote in message
news:f1d0tg$4rq$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Tom Lenz wrote:
>> Sometimes I want it there, sometimes I don't. I expected to be able to
>> click minimize or dock or something and have it go mostly away, leaving
>> just a little something that I could click on it and get the navigator
>> window back.
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> Are you talking about the Navigator View (in Eclipse terms, a View is what
> some people call a "panel" or "sub-window") that shows a tree of all the
> files?
> If so, any view can be made a Fast View, which are minimized to an icon
> but can be easily restored. To do so, right-click on the title bar and
> choose Fast View from the pop-up menu.
Yes, the navigator view is what I mean. When I try the fast view, when it
comes back up, it partially covers the edit view. The edit view's left edge
stays at the left edge of the eclipse window. I have to left click the
navigator view, hold it down, move it to the right an inch or so, then back
left, to get it to insert itself between the left edge of the eclipse window
and the edit view.
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| Re: Easiest way of making the Navigator bar appear and disappear [message #208978 is a reply to message #208906] |
Fri, 04 May 2007 18:43 |
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Originally posted by: eclipse5.rizzoweb.com
Tom Lenz wrote:
> Yes, the navigator view is what I mean. When I try the fast view, when it
> comes back up, it partially covers the edit view. The edit view's left edge
> stays at the left edge of the eclipse window. I have to left click the
> navigator view, hold it down, move it to the right an inch or so, then back
> left, to get it to insert itself between the left edge of the eclipse window
> and the edit view.
That is how Fast Views work - they overlay the rest of the window. They
are easily returned to their iconified state by clicking on one of the
other views or their icon in the Fast View bar. Fast Views can be
oriented horizontally (they expand from the top down) or vertically
(they expand from left-to-right), and they can be resized by dragging
their left or bottom border.
When you drag the view you are actually detaching it as a Fast View and
positioning it as a "regular" view within the window layout.
By the way, this is all covered in the Help if you search for "Fast Views."
Hope this helps,
Eric
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| Re: Easiest way of making the Navigator bar appear and disappear [message #209002 is a reply to message #208978] |
Sat, 05 May 2007 00:40 |
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> That is how Fast Views work - they overlay the rest of the window. They
> are easily returned to their iconified state by clicking on one of the
> other views
Yes, that's handy and what I like even better is how it returns to the
iconified state when you select a file from it.
I'll use it that way for a while and see how it wears. I was responding to a
challenge from a co-worker who wanted to have eclipse work like, I think he
said homestyle. He wanted to hit F9 and have the nav view appear and
disappear. I got eclipse to do that by making two views, one with and one
without the nav bar, then using power pro to send eclipse an F8 enter
keystroke sequence when the F9 key is pressed.
> oriented horizontally (they expand from the top down) or vertically (they
> expand from left-to-right), and they can be resized by dragging their left
> or bottom border.
Yes, it reminds me of the way the task bar in windows works, which reminds
me of something totally off topic: My wife discovered that on her notebook
computer, hitting Ctrl-Alt-Right Arrow rotates the entire windows desktop 90
degrees counter clockwise! Much to our relief, she also discovered that
hitting Ctrl-Alt-Left Arrow rotates it back.
Thanks for the help Eric.
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