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When a view is detached the resulting window is lacking normal window controls. This is quite confusing. It took me a while to figure out how to close this window (by closing the view inside of it) and I watched others struggle with this as well. The detached view window should have the normal close, minimize, maximize controls.
This may not be doable on all platforms. Some won't let you show min / max buttons unless the shell is completely trimmed. I'm going to be doing some other work on DW's this week and I'll bear this in mind while I'm in the code.
I've changed the WBWRenderer to make a DW a full Shell in order to allow it to show all the relevant controls (minus the 'minimize' button for now). It looks somewhat bogus because it's lacking a title, perhaps I should add an 'active part' listener that would update the shell's title with the label of the last view active in it ??
Please also make sure the Window is displayed in the task bar and cannot be displayed out of the currently available screens. I detached a file at work on to a secondary screen for reference and when I took my laptop home, the detached window is still on the now non-existent secondary screen!! Because it does not show up in the task bar or the task manager, I cannot move it back to the main (and only) screen.
Doh! I thought I'd already handled the case where a DW was off the screen by doing what we do in 3.x...adjust it so that it's at least partially visible. BTW, what you think of an enhancement that could detect which of the two screen setups you are currently using (docked / 2-screen vs undocked / 1-screen) and gave you a unique layout for each ? Moving to 4.2.2 to do something about the 'disappearing' DW's.
Hi, this problem no longer exists Windows 7 with version 4.2.1 now. I think what made the extra buttons appear also allows the window to be automatically moved back to the available screens once the screen it was on is disconnected. I have also tested my Ubuntu box at work and it seems it will automatically move window back as well even with 4.2. (I haven't tried all possible combinations thorugh.)
Bill, thanks for the additional input...we'll at least test this out to make sure *we* are satisfied with the current handling.
This works for me too on the 4.3 milestones.
This works for me as well...
