Grouping Panels:

Overview:
You can group panels in a tab style arrangement and dock the group to any side of your application workspace. The docking panes can be grouped together or docked inside one another to make the best use of available workspace. Once grouped, you access the panels one at a time by clicking on the visible tabs.

Grouping: In this example, you will see a panel group along the left side of the application window. The Available Colors panel, Floss Properties panel, and Symbol panel are grouped together.
To access a specific panel, simply press the tab in the group. |
Notes about Groupings: To Add a panel to a group: You grab the panel you want to add, and move your mouse over over the group. A Location Indicator group will display over the top of the group. Drop it in on the center icon of the location indicator. Dropping the selected panel in any of the arrows will dock it along the corresponding side of the group, but not actually make it part of the group.
To pull a panel out of a group: Normally, to “grab” a panel you click and hold the title bar. Groups are a little different. If you “grab” the title bar, you will move the entire group. If you want to pull a panel out of an existing group, you grab the tab and pull it out of the group.

See Also:

| The Design Studio | Docking Panels | Auto-Hiding Panels |

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