Chapter 9 Customizing your Modeling Environment

Windows

The PowerDesigner main window is divided into different windows with independent behavior.

In the upper part of the window, you can see the PowerDesigner general title bar and the menu bar. Below the general menus, the standard toolbar displays tools for carrying out standard operations such as Open, Save or Undo.

Two dockable windows are displayed by default when you open PowerDesigner: the Browser on the left and the Output pane at the bottom.

On the right hand side, the canvas is empty upon opening. This area is used to display the different MDI child windows.

You can customize the PowerDesigner environment by docking windows in the interface. Dockable windows are windows that align themselves with the edge of another interface element, typically a window or a pane.

There are three dockable windows in the PowerDesigner interface:

To dock a window:

1. Click the window title bar and keep the mouse button pressed.
   
2. Drag the selected window to another location in the main window.

If you drag the window close to another interface element The dockable window automatically aligns itself with the edge of the closest interface element.

If you drag the window anywhere in the work environment The window is resized and displays a title.

To disable the docking feature:

1. Right-click the dockable window background and deselect the Docking View command.
   
   The window becomes an MDI window.

To hide a docking window:

1. Click the X button in the window title bar.

To restore a window:

1. Select View→Browser.
   
   or
   
   Select View→Output.
   
   or
   
   Select View→Result List.

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