I am having difficulty docking toolbox with server explorer and data sources, in visual studio
If I do window..reset window layout, I get the toolbox where I want it. The reset position. With server explorer and data sources
But when I click toolbox on the far left, and it appears, and I drag it a bit, the toolbox option disappears from the far left and I can't get it back without doing window..reset
And I have the same problem with server explorer and data sources.
If I click them and drag the window, I can't the option back, and in fact I completely lose the menu on the far left
I have tried dragging toolbox around and different places appear for it to rest, but I can't make it go somewhere such that an option appears in the far left again, without having to do window..reset window layout.
To elaborate..
I can drag the toolbox and so that the far left arrow gets highlighted, and then release, but then it still doesn't appear as text in the far left
^^ See in the above pictures I don't get
toolbox appearing
or to show a fuller view
Drag that window to the left or right side you will get the mark where you want to place it. than leave that window your window will be docked there.
EDITED:
Windows should be Dockable and after placing the window at your position you can unpin that window so, it can be collapsed when the mouse leave.
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After a few months of not writing any iOS code I upgraded to XCode 8.1 and opened a project. Strangely I am seeing two windows (see pasted image below). Annoyingly these two screens move in sync, show the same file, etc, but one cannot be closed. There is no 'X' at the top to close the window. Has anyone run into this and how can I get rid of one of the screens?
Probably you activated the version editor without noticing it. To revert to the standard editor, hit the button on the top right corner of the window with a drawing showing lines justified to the left (right next to a button with two circles and another with arrows).
Alternatively go to the menu:
View -> Standard Editor -> Show Standard Editor
or hit the Command + Return keys.
That should do it.
I feel like I have read every link on Google pertaining to this question, but none that I have read have helped.
All I want to do is view my Storyboard layout on the left monitor, and on my right monitor, in a new window, have the Assistant Editor open to "Preview" for my Storyboard so that I can preview the different devices sizes (clicking different storyboard views on the left screen should update the assistant editor preview on the right). This seems so simple, but has not proved to be.
Please tell me this is possible.
EDIT: This guy seems to have it working but following the steps didn't work for me.
It's possible.. and it's awesome:
I do have this working after following the instructions linked in the OP. I think the author left out that you need to click on the view controller that you're editing in BOTH instances of the story board window to see the changes update. Then as you're editing on your main window the changes will update to the open storyboard and thus the preview will update as well. I was able to test this and achieved a somewhat desired result.
In case the link goes dead here are the instructions lined out
Here’s how you can set this up…
In the Project Navigator pane, single-click a storyboard/XIB file to open it in the main Xcode window.
Now double-click that same file to open it in a new window.
Move the new window to another monitor and maximize it
(So now you have the story board on 2 windows)
Click on the new window to make sure it has input focus, then type Option+Command+Enter to open an assistant editor in that window.
In the assistant editor’s jump bar click on ‘Automatic‘ to open the drop-down menu (see the screenshot below if you don’t know what this means).
Click on the ‘Preview‘ menu item to open the preview editor.
Click and hold next to the assistant editor’s jump bar, then drag up or left (depending on which editor layout you prefer; vertical or horizontal), to maximize the preview’s screen real estate.
Lastly... the part the author left out is that you need to select the view controller you want to edit in BOTH story board windows and then just drag the preview window to cover more of the screen.
It's not pretty but it's effective.
Edit: wording and grammar :)
This is not currently possible (Xcode 6.3.1 at the time of writing). The best you can do is open your storyboard in one window, open it again in a new window, open the preview, and slide the assistant editor as far left as possible. The preview won't take up the entire window, but it'll be pretty close.
Tabs keep disappearing on my Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. Below is a screenshot of how the tabs rows look with different window sizes.
On both screenshots, BOTH files are open but when the window's maximized (or larger) I can only see one of the tabs. If I resize the window to make it smaller, the other tab is shown. This happens even if I set pinned tabs to be shown on the same row. I need to say that this is not consistent (it doesn't happen always) and only occurs on one of my dev machines. I've updated the video drivers (NVIDIA) and I even reinstalled Windows on this machine.
I tried to fix it myself but resetting the window layout was the ultimate solution for me.
Go to the Window menu and select "Reset Window Layout". Then confirm.
You will need to restore all your window layout, such as displaying the Solutions Explorer. All of the special windows are found in the View menu.
They don't disappear, a file is not shown on the tab due to size issues when space is constrained.
To get to it, select the arrow drop down which will list the 'hidden' files not shown. It is above the yellow triangle.
Or selct the white triangle to the right which will scroll to the next file which is hidden. Then once moved to the right, there will be a left pointing arrow on the opposite side to move to the left hidden files.
From Extensions and Updates download "Productivity Power Tools" which allows tabs to be colored (as shown above) and placed, to the left, right or bottom. I prefer the left, so no files are hidden as they are listed horizontally.
If space is at a premium and one wants to see all of them I find that a vertical display (using the power tools) is the best such as below:
Somehow, I moved the toolbox in my Visual Studio 2012 installation away from its default position along the left edge of my display. I'm used to it being there, and I want to put it back, but I don't see a way to do it. How can I get it there?
Thanks very much!
Based on the comments to your question it sounds like want the toolbox tool window to be hidden. Only the name "Toolbox" should appear and it should be aligned vertically (top to bottom) instead of horizontally. To get that do the following
Drag the toolbox tool window over to the left side of the screen and drop it
There will be 3 icons on the top right of the tool window. Click the middle one which looks like a pin
This will get it back in the default position
Click WINDOW And select Reset Window Layout
Using this: Alt + Ctrl + x. Then Toolbox tag will pop out.
I'm used to VS-2008, with "MDI" IDE, aka "Overlapping Windows". This doesn't seem to be an option in VS-2010, so now when I have, say Form1 open, and click the toolbox...it slides over and totally obscures Form1.
So...a great solution would be telling me if there's a way to get vs2010 to allow the MDI interface.
Otherwise, how can I get the toolbox to slide and also slide the set of tabbed windows over so I can see what I'm dragging a control onto?
Thanks,
--Jim
Have you tried pinning the toolbox? There should be a pin icon on the top of the toolbox. If you click it, the toolbox will stay on the screen, but it will resize the Form1 window to make room for the toolbox window.