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Chapter 4 Configuring the User Interface
When the user interface for FDT was designed an attempt was made to make frequently used operations
quickly accessible and have related operations grouped in a logical order. However, when the user is in the
middle of a long session he may find it more useful to have a different arrangement of the user interface items.
FDT facilitates this user customization. This chapter describes how the user interface can be arranged and how
various aspects of the display can be customized.
4.1 Arranging Windows
Minimizing windows
When an operation is finished on an open Editor window but it may be necessary to look at it in its current
state later, it can be reduced to an icon, this is called minimizing the window. To minimize a window either
click on the ‘minimize’ button of the window, or select [Minimize] from the window drop-down menu.
The window is minimized to an icon at the bottom of the Editor window.
Note The icon may not be visible if there is another window open over the bottom of the screen.
To restore the icon back to a window either double click on the icon, or click once to pop up the icon menu and
select [R
estore], or select required window from the Menu bar [Window] drop-down menu.
Tiling windows
After some time there may be many windows open on the screen. All the windows can be arranged in a tile
format with none of them overlapping each other using the "Tile Windows" option. To invoke this select the
[W
indow->Tile Horizontally] or [Window->Tile Vertically] menu option.
All currently open windows are arranged in a tile format. Windows that are minimized to icons are not
affected.
4.2 Locating Currently Open Windows
When many windows are open in the FDT application window it is quite easy to lose one of them behind the
others.
Locating a specific window
There are two methods to find the lost window.
1. To select a specific window, invoke the [W
indow] menu. Click on the required window from the list of
open windows at the bottom of the menu. The currently selected window will have a check mark next to it
in the window list.
The window selected will be brought to the front of the display. If it is minimized the icon is restored to a
window.
2. A specific window can also be selected by clicking on the tab containing the file name at the bottom of the
Editor window. If the window is not minimized it will be brought to the front of the display. If it is
minimized, the minimized icon will be brought to the front of the display.