Configuring the Layout of the Views and Editors

Arranging the Layout

You can drag any view to any margin of another view or editor inside the Oxygen XML Author window. Once you create a layout that suites your needs, you can save it from Window ⇒ Export Layout. Oxygen XML Author creates a layout file containing the preferences of the saved layout. To load a layout, go to Window ⇒ Load Layout. To reset it, select Window ⇒ Reset Layout.

The changes you make to any layout are preserved between working sessions. The predefined layout files are saved in the preferences directory of Oxygen XML Author.

To gain more editing space in the Oxygen XML Author window, click Toggle auto-hide in any view. This button sets the view in the auto-hide state, making it visible only as a vertical tab, at the margins of the Oxygen XML Author window. To display a view in the auto-hide state, hover its side-tab with your cursor, or click it to keep the view visible until you click elsewhere. A view can also be set to a floating state by using the Toggle floating action, making it independent from the rest of the Oxygen XML Author window.

You can drag the editors and arrange them in any order, both horizontally and vertically.

The following image presents two editors arranged as horizontal tiles. To arrange them vertically, drag one of them on top of the other. In this example, the personal.xml file was dragged over the personal-schema.xml file. When doing this, a dark gray rectangle marks the rearranged layout.

Drag and Drop Editors

Tile/Stack Editor Actions

You can also tile or stack all open editors, both in the Editor Perspective or in the Database Perspective, using the following actions from the Editor toolbar or Window menu:

Tile Editors Horizontally

Splits the editing area into horizontal tiles, one for each open file.

Tile Editors Vertically

Splits the editing area into vertical tiles, one for each open file.

Stack Editors

The reverse of the Tile Editors Horizontally/Vertically actions. Stacks all open editors.

Synchronous Scrolling

Select this action to scroll through the tiled editors at the same time.

Split Editor Actions

You can divide the editing area vertically and horizontally using the following actions available in the Editor toolbar and Window menu:

• Split Editor Horizontally - Splits the editor horizontally. This is useful for comparing and merging content between two documents.
• Split Editor Vertically - Splits the editor vertically. This is useful for comparing and merging content between two documents.
• Unsplit Editor - Removes a split action on the editing area.

Scroll Wheel Actions

When the opened documents titles do not fit in the tab strip, the scroll wheel can be used to scroll the editor title tabs to the left or right, the same as the two arrows on the top-right. You can also switch between edited files by using the Next editor and Previous editor actions from the Window menu, or by using their respective keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl + F6 (Command + F6 on OS X) and Ctrl + Shift + F6 (Command + Shift + F6 on OS X)). These two actions display a small pop-up window that allows you to cycle through all opened files.