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Author Get rid of floating windows
Urs Wigger

2004-12-07, 4:16 am

Visual Studio 2003 drives me really crazy because of all these docked
and/or floated windows. Although one can select the MDI paradigm in the
options, this does not apply to all windows! I have the choice either to
dock them - with the effect that half of my display space gets used-up,
or let them floated - with the result I'm wasting half of my time in
moving around windows. Obviously, the designers of this UI have never
really worked with their own product....
I really hope that the next VS version will offer an MDI interface that
applies to ALL windows (as it was in VS 6).

Regards Urs
Alexander Grigoriev

2004-12-07, 4:16 am

Right click->uncheck "Docking".

"Urs Wigger" <urs.wigger_nospam@leica-geosystems.com_nospam> wrote in
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> Visual Studio 2003 drives me really crazy because of all these docked
> and/or floated windows. Although one can select the MDI paradigm in the
> options, this does not apply to all windows! I have the choice either to
> dock them - with the effect that half of my display space gets used-up, or
> let them floated - with the result I'm wasting half of my time in moving
> around windows. Obviously, the designers of this UI have never really
> worked with their own product....
> I really hope that the next VS version will offer an MDI interface that
> applies to ALL windows (as it was in VS 6).
>
> Regards Urs



Urs Wigger

2004-12-07, 4:16 am

Alexander Grigoriev schrieb:
> Right click->uncheck "Docking".
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> "Urs Wigger" <urs.wigger_nospam@leica-geosystems.com_nospam> wrote in
> message news:%23G7fDC42EHA.3540@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
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Then I get a 'floating' window, always statying on top, which drives me
even more crazy. I want these Windows being 'ordinary MDI windows'. That
is, they can be minimized, tiled, cascaded, sent behind etc. As it was
in Studio 6, when you unchecked 'Docking View'.

Regards Urs
Alexander Grigoriev

2004-12-07, 4:16 am

Uncheck both "Docking" and "Floating".

"Urs Wigger" <urs.wigger_nospam@leica-geosystems.com_nospam> wrote in
message news:exNpr662EHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Alexander Grigoriev schrieb:
> Then I get a 'floating' window, always statying on top, which drives me
> even more crazy. I want these Windows being 'ordinary MDI windows'. That
> is, they can be minimized, tiled, cascaded, sent behind etc. As it was in
> Studio 6, when you unchecked 'Docking View'.
>
> Regards Urs



Urs Wigger

2004-12-07, 9:05 am

Alexander Grigoriev schrieb:
> Uncheck both "Docking" and "Floating".
>
> "Urs Wigger" <urs.wigger_nospam@leica-geosystems.com_nospam> wrote in
> message news:exNpr662EHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
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Hi Alexander,

Thanks a lot, that's it! I guess I was blind!

Regards Urs
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