Common Borders for Graphics Windows
Common Borders for graphics windows
When a page contains more than one graphics window, these are laid out in a cellular grid as defined in the Window Layout section. This leads to "common borders" between adjacent windows. From D3PLOT 19.0 onwards, it is possible to drag common borders with the mouse in a way that resizes windows on both sides of the border as shown in the following images.
Move the mouse (don't depress a button) over a border region between two windows. This will highlight the drag areas in which a "click and drag" operation will move borders. In order to control which borders are dragged, three zones coloured pink, blue and green are shown and these have the following meanings:
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Pink zone defines a common border between exactly two adjacent windows.
(Horizontal and vertical borders behave the
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Dragging in this pink region border moves only that common border between the two windows. So in this example the vertical border between W1 and W2 is moved, but that between W3 and W4 is unchanged. |
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Blue zones define a common border extending the full height or width of the page as appropriate.
(Both blue zones have the same effect, it
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| Dragging in the blue zone moves all windows on either side of the border in the appropriate direction. In this example, all four windows are moved. |
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Green zones define two common borders extending both horizontally and vertically to the full width and height of the page.
(Both green zones have the same effect, it
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| Dragging in the green zone moves all windows on either side of the border in the appropriate direction. In this example, all four windows are moved. |
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When windows are not the same size: In this example, W5 is twice the width of W3 and W4 above it so there is no single common border between W3/W5 or W4/W5. In this situation there will be no pink zone, only blue and green.
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Positioning the mouse at window edges: When using the green zone to drag both horizontal and vertical axes, the borders that are dragged are those which intersect at the corner where the mouse is located. In this example, the mouse is at the bottom left of W1 / top left of W3 and it can be seen that the borders which are highlighted for dragging are those which intersect at this point.
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Switching common border dragging on/off |
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Common borders are on by default, but they can be controlled from the Layout panel. The default behaviour may also be set by the preference: d3plot*common_window_borders: true | false |