Its currently possible to do this (and also use the ‘float’ icon next to the x in the top right corner). The problem is that its easy to grab that by accident, and its almost impossible to dock the window back to its original place. Say, you want to resie the slave window, by pulling up its top edge. One pixel off, and you detach the slave window. Let it go, it reattaches somewhere else. I could not find a way to reattach it to its original location other then resetting the layout (losing all my other changes)
Using the new “lock” option in the Monitor that was introduced in beta 11 will prevent accidental undockings. You can find this in the main toolbar, or in the view menu.
Also, you can double-click the title bar of a floating window to automatically dock it to its original location.
Thanks, the lock option is very useful, i’d go so far as making that be ON default. Or alternately, making docking work like it does in visual studio, where you have to explicitly aim for dock positions, as opposed to now where as you move a subwindow it just docks somewhere.
Over the last week or so i have developed a real fear of moving deadline windows around in front of the main monitor dialog
Would it be possible to have an “undo” for the layout? I’ll accidentally grab a window and then it’s like “fuuuuuuuuuuuuu**” and spend the next few minutes rearranging my layout to get back to the order it was in before.
Yeah i noticed they have their own taskbar icon as well. As a user it seemed like inconsistent behaviour.
Even though, to be honest, i like the windows in their non-docking state better…
i just had this moment where i moved the slave log, then went “fuuuu its going to dock!!!” and then it didnt.
There doesn’t seem to be any “undo” behavior built in to the dockable widgets, but using the lock option should prevent this from happening in the first place.
That’s correct. At least not out of the box anyways…
We built this into deadlinecommand so that it could be used in standalone or headless modes, and it just made sense to use it from the monitor. The other benefit is that you can have multiple open without affecting the monitor’s overall performance.
