Showing and hiding frames

Background

Starting point

The procedure in this topic assumes Skribenta is installed and configured for normal operation, and:

Your need

You want to work with your content using different frames.

The possibility

It is possible to work with content using different frames.

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to work with content using different frames.

The result

This is the Skribenta user interface before opening the Content and Tools frame.

This is the Skribenta user interface after opening the Content and Tools frame.

Overall steps

To open or close a frame, click the corresponding button in the frame bar.

Time

Seconds

1. Make sure that the step(s) in section "Starting point" (see section "Background" above) are performed.

2. To open or close a frame, click the corresponding button on the frame bar.

Click the Aspect button to open or close the Aspect frame.

The Aspect frame contains the Aspect bar.
Click the Nav button to open or close the Navigation frame.

The Navigation frame contains the Workspace view.
Click the Content button to open or close the Content frame.

The Content frame shows the file content for each selected file on a separate tab.

The Navigator frame and Content frame can not be closed at the same time.
Click the Tools button to open or close the Tools frame.

The Tools frame contains three tabs: Help, Tools, Properties.

3. To resize a frame, move the frame border using a drag-and-drop operation.

4. To do an operation on a tab in the Navigator frame (or Content frame):

1. Right-click a tab.

A pop-up list opens.

2. In the pop-up list, select:

Close to close the tab.
Close Others to close the other tabs in the current frame.
Close Tabs to the Left to close the tabs to the left of the selected tab.
Close Tabs to the Right to close the tabs to the right of the selected tab.
Close All to close all the tabs in the current frame.
Move to the Navigation frame (or Move to the Content frame) to move the selected tab to the other frame.

3. You can also:

move a tab using a drag-and-drop operation on the tab icon (then drop it on another tab).
close a tab by clicking on the cross on the tab.