The IDE's windowing system lets you arrange windows anywhere in the IDE window by dragging and dropping them. Each window appears as a tab in the area in which it resides. Even if you close a window or it closes automatically, the IDE remembers the window's position the next time you open it.
To move a window:
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The Source Editor can only contain documents and cannot contain windows. You cannot dock any windows into the Source Editor, and you cannot move document tabs outside of the Source Editor. |
Some windows only appear when you are performing the task to which they are related. For example, the Debugger windows only appear when you are in a debugging session. You can manually open task-related windows so that they are always open. .
To open a task-related window:
The following table lists some useful keyboard shortcuts for navigating the IDE windowing system:
Keys | Action |
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Ctrl-` | Toggle open IDE windows |
Shit-Escape | Maximize window | Ctrl-Shift-2 | Show file in Filesystems window | Ctrl-F4 | Close window |
Ctrl-Shift-F4 | Close all documents |
Shift-F4 | Open Documents dialog box |
Ctrl-0 | Switch to Source Editor |
Ctrl-1 | Switch to Properties window |
Ctrl-2 | Switch to Filesystems window |
Ctrl-3 | Switch to Project window |
Ctrl-4 | Switch to Output window |
Ctrl-5 | Switch to Runtime window |
Ctrl-6 | Switch to To Do window |
Ctrl-7 | Switch to HTTP Monitor window |
Ctrl-8 | Switch to Versions window |
Ctrl-9 | Switch to VCS Output window |
Ctrl-Shift-6 | Switch to Execution window |
F1 | Show Help for selected component |
See Also | |
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Working With Large Files in the Source Editor |