Chapter 7
Workspaces and Window Management

7.1 Window Management and Docking

All dialog boxes, waveform groups, and other GUI elements in ngscopeclient may be used docked or free-floating as needed.

To dock a window, drag the title bar (if floating) or tab title (if docked) to the desired location (Fig. 7.1).

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Figure 7.1: Docking a floating window

On MacOS, Linux X11, and Windows you can drag dialogs or waveform areas out of the main ngscopeclient window to create multiple top-level windows. This can be useful for complex experimental setups or on multi-monitor workstations.

NOTE: Multi-window mode is not currently available on Linux Wayland due to GUI toolkit limitations however we hope to support this in the future.

7.2 Workspaces

To create more complex windowing layouts, you may find it helpful to create workspaces.

A workspace is a window which has no function of its own, and simply serves as a container for docking other windows into. The workspace can itself be docked into another workspace or the main application window, allowing creation of complex multi-window or multi-tab layouts to suit your experimental needs (Fig. 7.2, 7.3, 7.4).

In the default ngscopeclient window layout, for example, the "Filter Graph" tab is a workspace which contains both the filter graph editor and the filter palette.

To rename a workspace, right click on the window title (if floating) or tab title (if docked) and enter the desired name.

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Figure 7.2: A docked workspace containing a waveform group and two protocol analyzer tabs

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Figure 7.3: Switching from the waveform workspace to the filter graph editor workspace

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Figure 7.4: Free-floating workspace not docked to the main application window