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Arranging control panels
The control panels have several features that allow you to arrange them in
a way that is most efficient for your application.
A control panel associated with the main window is opened and brought on
top of the other windows by clicking on its icon in the navigator. Any con-
trol panel can be opened and brought on top of the other windows, by
selecting the window it is associated with, and ticking the panel’s name in
the View menu.
Control panels can be stacked to save display space. When panels are
stacked, labels are displayed on the bottom of the control panel stack. To
put a control panel on top of the stack, click its label. To add a control panel
to a stack, drag either its title bar or its label to either the title bar or labels
of the stack. To remove a panel from a stack, drag its label away from the
stack.
To dock a (stack of ) panels to the side of its associated window, or to the
side of, or below another panel that is already docked to this window, drag
its title bar to the desired position using the mouse cursor.
It is possible to scroll the content of a control panel up and down, when it
is too small to display all the parameters it contains. To do this, move the
mouse cursor over an area where it changes to a four pointed arrow. Then,
drag the content up and down with the mouse cursor.
Storing and retrieving the workspace
When panels are opened, they appear at predefined places in the main win-
dow. This arrangement of the ‘workspace’ is stored in the configuration file
‘Default EZ2-AFM.gui’ or ‘Default EZ2-STM.gui’ by default. The loca-
tion of the configuration files on the hard-disk depends on the operating
system you use. Functions for storing and retrieving the workspace are
accessed via the menu ‘File>Workspace’.
‘Save’ saves the workspace to the currently selected workspace file.
‘Save as...’ saves the current arrangement of the panels under another name.
‘Load’ loads a previously saved workspace.