PT9: Problem keeping panels in their place [SOLVED]

Question

This is driving me crazy. Or nearly so.

With Paratext 9, I’m having trouble setting up my display panes the way I want them. I use two horizontal panels on the left half of the display and one vertical panel on the right half. I have this layout saved, and it starts out just right. (See screenshot below, “PT9_Display_1”.)

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The problem is that the panels seem to be untethered from the background such that, once I’ve moved them into place, if I drag the topmost border of PT to the left or right, the three panels stay put rather than keep their place relative to the borders of the main display. (See screenshot below, “PT9_Display_2”.)

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I didn’t have this problem in PT8.

If I try to dock one of the three panels, it spreads out to fill the whole display area and I have to do an Undo Tab Move to get things back again. (See screenshot below, “PT9_Display_3”.)

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I hoped that by using the pin icon on the top border of each panel, I could make it stay put. Instead, it “stays on top”, hiding the other panels as I depress the pin icon on each panel in sequence. Only the last one “pinned” remains, as you’ll see in the screenshot below. I had pinned the other two panels in sequence, but they disappeared when I pinned the third and last panel. (See screenshot below, “PT9_Display_4”.)

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What am I missing?

Answer 1

It may help if you review these documents.
https://lingtran.net/Paratext-9
https://vimeopro.com/lingtransoft/pt9/video/368328956

What you have are floating windows. In order to dock them properly, you will grab the blue title bar of the panel you’re trying to dock (not the white title bar) and move it until you see the blue highlighting appear in the main Paratext window. This first one will fill the whole PT window, but once you go to add others, you will be able to place them in different zones, like filling the whole right side, or filling the lower left section. I think the video will make the ‘blue box’ thing more clear.

Comments

Thank you, Stephen+Katt. Watching the Vimeo video was helpful. Somehow the mechanism for arranging panels seems just different enough in PT9 that I wasn’t getting anywhere. I wasn’t patient enough to see that, with enough mousing around, I could get the results I wanted.

Case closed.

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I am glad the video helped. I think there might be another one on arranging windows. Other windowy things that are new in Paratext 9 is autohide, tabs (like a web browser), and the ability to have windows on more than one monitor.

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Yeah, tabs may be something I’d use, and every now and then I have occasion to connect to two monitors. I’ll be sure to play with that next time. It could very useful, I’m sure.

Thanks!