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- <h3 class="title"><a id="gimp-docks"></a>3.4. Dialogs and Docking</h3>
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- <div class="simplesect" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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- <div>
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-dock-separator"></a>Docking Bars</h4>
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- <div class="informalfigure">
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- <img src="../images/using/dialog-highlight-dockbar.png" />
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- <p>
- A dock, with docking bars highlighted
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- <p>
- In Gimp 2.0 and 2.2, you have a lot of flexibility about the
- arrangement of dialog windows on your screen. Instead of placing
- each dialog in its own window, you can group them together using
- docks. A "dock" is a container window that can hold a collection
- of persistent dialogs, such as the Tool Options dialog, Brushes
- dialog, Palette dialog, etc. Docks cannot, however, hold image
- windows: each image always has its own separate window. They
- also can't hold non-persistent dialogs, such as the Preferences
- dialog or the New Image dialog.
- </p>
- <p>
- Each dock has a set of <span class="emphasis"><em>docking bars</em></span>, as
- highlighted in the adjoining figure. These are thin gray bars,
- very unobtrusive and easy not to notice: most people don't
- realize that they exist until they are specifically pointed out.
- </p>
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-dockable-drag-area"></a>Docking Drag Handles</h4>
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- <div class="informalfigure">
- <div class="mediaobject">
- <img src="../images/using/dialog-highlight-handle.png" />
- <div class="caption">
- <p>
- A dialog in a dock, with the drag handle area highlighted
- </p>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <p>
- Each dockable dialog has a <span class="emphasis"><em>drag handle area</em></span>,
- as highlighted in the figure on the right. You can recognize this
- by the fact that the cursor changes to a hand shape when the
- pointer is over the drag handle area. To dock a dialog, you
- simply click on its drag handle area, and drag it onto one of the
- docking bars in a dock.
- </p>
- <p>
- You can drag more than one dialog onto the same docking bar. If
- you do, they will turn into tabs, represented by iconic symbols at
- the top. Clicking on the tab handle will bring a tab to the
- front, so that you can interact with it.
- </p>
- </div>
- <div class="simplesect" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-dock-image-menu"></a>Image Menu</h4>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <a id="gimp-dock-auto-button"></a>
- <div class="informalfigure">
- <div class="mediaobject">
- <img src="../images/using/dialog-highlight-imagemenu.png" />
- <div class="caption">
- <p>
- A dock with an Image Menu highlighted
- </p>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <p>
- Some docks contain an <span class="emphasis"><em>Image Menu</em></span>: a menu
- listing all of the images open in GIMP, and displaying the name of
- the image whose information is shown in the dock. You can use the
- Image Menu to select a different image. If the
- <span class="guilabel">Auto</span> button is depressed, then the menu always
- shows the name of GIMP's currently active image, that is, the image
- you are currently working on.
- </p>
- <p>
- By default, a "Layers, Channels, and Paths" dock shows an Image
- Menu at the top, and other types of docks do not. You can always
- add or remove an Image Menu, however, using the "Show Image Menu"
- toggle in the Tab menu, as described below. (Exception: you
- cannot add an Image Menu to the dock that contains the Toolbox.)
- </p>
- </div>
- <div class="simplesect" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h4 class="title"><a id="id3419476"></a>Tab Menu</h4>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="informalfigure">
- <div class="mediaobject">
- <img src="../images/using/dialog-highlight-tabmenu.png" />
- <div class="caption">
- <p>
- A dialog in a dock, with the Tab menu button highlighted
- </p>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <p>
- In each dialog, you can access a special menu of tab-related
- operations by pressing the Tab Menu button, as highlighted in the
- figure on the right. Exactly which commands are shown in the menu
- varies a bit from dialog to dialog, but they always include
- operations for creating new tabs, or closing or detaching tabs.
- </p>
- <div class="informalfigure">
- <div class="mediaobject">
- <img src="../images/using/tab-menu.png" />
- <div class="caption">
- <p>
- Tab menu from the Layers dialog
- </p>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <p>
- A Tab menu gives you acces to the following commands:
- </p>
- <div class="variablelist">
- <dl>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Context Menu</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- At the top of each Tab menu is an entry that opens into the
- dialog's context menu, which contains operations specific to
- that particular type of dialog. For example, the context menu
- for the Patterns dialog contains a set of operations for
- manipulating patterns.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Add Tab</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <a id="gimp-dock-tab-add"></a>
- <p>
- This entry opens into a submenu allowing you to add a large
- variety of dockable dialogs as new tabs.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Close Tab</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <a id="gimp-dock-tab-close"></a>
- <p>
- This entry closes the dialog. Closing the last dialog in a
- dock causes the dock itself to close. Choosing this menu
- entry has the same effect as pressing the "Close Tab" button.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Detach Tab</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <a id="gimp-dock-tab-detach"></a>
- <p>
- This entry detaches the dialog from the dock, creating a new
- dock with the detached dialog as its only member. It has the
- same effect as dragging the tab out of the dock and releasing
- it at a random location.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Preview Size</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <a id="gimp-dock-preview-size"></a>
- <p>
- </p>
- <div class="informalfigure">
- <div class="mediaobject">
- <img src="../images/using/tab-menu-preview-size.png" />
- <div class="caption">
- <p>
- Preview Size submenu of a Tab menu
- </p>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <p>
- </p>
- <p>
- Many, but not all, dialogs have Tab menus containing a
- <span class="guilabel">Preview Size</span> option, which opens into a
- submenu giving a list of sizes for the items in the dialog.
- For example, the Brushes dialog shows pictures of all
- available brushes: the Preview Size determines how large the
- pictures are. The default is <span class="guilabel">Medium</span>.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Tab Style</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <a id="gimp-dock-tab-style"></a>
- <p>
- </p>
- <div class="informalfigure">
- <div class="mediaobject">
- <img src="../images/using/tab-menu-tab-style.png" />
- <div class="caption">
- <p>
- Tab Style submenu of a Tab menu
- </p>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <p>
- </p>
- <p>
- This entry is available when multiple dialogs are in the same
- dock: it opens into a submenu allowing you to choose how the
- tabs at the top will appear. There are five choices, not all
- of which will be available for all types of dialogs:
- </p>
- <p>
- </p>
- <div class="variablelist">
- <dl>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Icon</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This choice gives you an icon representing the dialog
- type.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Current Status</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This choice is only available for dialogs that allow you
- to select something, such as a brush, a pattern, a
- gradient, etc. It gives you a tab showing a
- representation of the item currently selected.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Text</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This choice gives you a tab showing the dialog type in
- text.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Icon and Text</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This choice gives you wider tabs, containing both an
- icon and the type of dialog in text.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Status and Text</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This choice, where available, shows the item currently
- selected, as well as the type of dialog.
- </p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- <p>
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">View as List; View as Grid</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <a id="gimp-dock-view-as-list"></a>
- <a id="gimp-dock-view-as-grid"></a>
- <p>
- These entries are shown in dialogs that allow you to select an
- item from a set: brushes, patterns, fonts, etc. You can
- choose whether to view the items as a vertical list, with the
- name of each beside it, or as a grid, with representations of
- the items but no names. Each has its advantages: viewing as
- a list gives you more information, but viewing as a grid
- allows you to see many more possibilities at once. The
- default for this varies across dialogs: for brushes and
- patterns, the default is a grid; for most other things, the
- default is a list.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Show Image Menu</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This is a toggle. If it is checked, then an Image Menu is
- shown at the top of the dock. It is not available for dialogs
- docked below the Toolbox.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Auto Follow Active Image</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This is a toggle, and it is meaningless unless an Image Menu
- is being shown. It causes the Image Menu, and hence the
- contents of the dialog if they are image-related, to change to
- follow whatever image you are working on at the moment.
- </p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="simplesect" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-dockable-tab-close"></a>Removing Tabs</h4>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="informalfigure">
- <div class="mediaobject">
- <img src="../images/using/dialog-highlight-closetab.png" />
- <div class="caption">
- <p>
- A dialog in a dock, with the "Close Tab" button highlighted
- </p>
- <p>
- Le bouton de fermeture d'un onglet
- </p>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <p>
- If you want to remove a dialog from a dock, there are two ways you
- can do it. First, if you click on the drag handle area and drag
- the dialog away, releasing it someplace other than a docking bar,
- it will form a new dock in its own right. Second, clicking on the
- "Close Tab" button (highlighted in the figure to the right) will
- close the frontmost dialog.
- </p>
- </div>
- <div class="simplesect" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h4 class="title"><a id="id3419944"></a>Creating Dialogs</h4>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <p>
- Most dockable dialogs can be created in more than one way, but all
- of them can be created using the
- <span class="guimenu">File</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Dialogs</span>
- menu from the Main Toolbox, or by using the <span class="guimenu">Add</span>
- command in the Tab menu from any dialog. As a convenience, there
- are also three pre-built docks you can create using the
- <span class="guimenu">File</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Dialogs</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Create New Dock</span>
- menu path from the Main Toolbox:
- </p>
- <div class="variablelist">
- <dl>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Layers, Channels and Paths</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This gives you a dock containing:
- </p>
- <div class="itemizedlist">
- <ul type="disc">
- <li>
- <p>
- The Channels dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Layers dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Paths dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Undo dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Brushes, Patterns and Gradients</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This gives you a dock containing:
- </p>
- <div class="itemizedlist">
- <ul type="disc">
- <li>
- <p>
- The Brushes dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Patterns dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Gradients dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Palettes dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Fonts dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Misc. Stuff</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This gives you a dock containing:
- </p>
- <div class="itemizedlist">
- <ul type="disc">
- <li>
- <p>
- The Buffers dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Images dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Document History dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Image Templates dialog
- </p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
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- <th align="left">Tip</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">
- <p>
- Just because you have a lot of flexibility does not mean that all
- choices are equally good. There are at least two things we
- recommend:
- </p>
- <div class="orderedlist">
- <ol type="1">
- <li>
- <p>
- Keep the Tool Options dialog docked directly beneath the
- Main Toolbox at all times.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- Keep the Layers dialog around at all times, in a separate
- dock from the Main Toolbox, with an Image Menu above it.
- (Use "Show Image Menu" in the dialog Tab menu to display the
- Image menu if you have somehow lost it.)
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