Using Handles

How to:

You can dock floating panels within the canvas to ease accessibility. When you drag a panel across the App Studio canvas, a set of handles appears. These handles guide the placement of the panel, and automatically dock the panel to the edge of the canvas upon which you rest the mouse.

The following image shows an example of the handles that appear when you drag the Environments Tree panel across the canvas.

Floating Environments Tree panel with App Studio handles


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Procedure: How to Dock Panels Around the Canvas Using Handles
  1. From the panel customization toolbar, click the arrow, and then click Floating.
  2. Drag the panel across the canvas and rest the mouse on a handle.

    When you rest the mouse over a handle, a shaded area appears. This shaded area provides a preview of where the panel will dock if you release the mouse, as shown in the following image.

    Panel placement with handles

  3. Release the mouse when you are satisfied with the previewed location of the panel.

    The panel automatically docks to the edge of the canvas.

Additional panels open as you develop applications throughout the product. To conserve space around the canvas, you can combine these panels. When you mouse over a docked panel, a tabbed handle option appears, as shown in the following image.

Tabbed panel placement with handles

This handle option combines the panels into a single container with tabs. You can switch between the panels by clicking the appropriate tab at the bottom of the container. An example of the Environments Tree tab and File/Folder Properties tab, in a combined panel container, are shown in the following image.

Combined panel container


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