Undocking Toolbox Panels

I have a normal 19" monitor (dual-screen) and find undocking the toolbox, Inventory, Repository panels and moving them to the second monitor frees up much needed space when working, however I keep running into the problem where the Toolbox panel disapears and will only re-appear again when I close out of designer.

This issue tends to happen when I have the Inventory, Repository, and Toolbox panels in the one panel which is undocked on the second screen, as soon as I move away from something that requires the toolbox (such as client or server side scripts) the toolbox will disappear and I cannot not get it to return when I go back to a form or other area that uses the toolbox. In the View ribbon, the toolbox is unselected and when I press the toolbox button, the button depresses but nothing else occurs.

Has anyone experienced this issue and maybe found a resolution, or is there a way to log this as a bug?

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Jerome_Pearce

The toolbox is the black sheep of the task pane family. It seems to pop up when needed, and hide when not, unmlike the others that are always shown. This causes too much 'jumping around' and when it is slow we are forever pressing the wroing 'x' and closing a task pane instead of a window or vice versa.

We tried everything except the property pane, which we like visible all the time, in the odd new ProVision thingy pane, but you cannot place that where you want, and when you use it, every pane that newly opens, such as the message or find pane, leaps into the same pane as the properties pane, which is very annoying.

The only solution we have so far is all three (inventory, data thingy and toolbox) in one pane, and the properties pane in a separate docked one.The only downside si that when the Toolbox pane appears it pops in front of the others in the shared pane, but that is typically what we want anyway.

We find any panes docked outside the Designer on a dual monitor will be irretrievebly lost once we return to a single monitor, so try to avoid that. That should be easy to fix as all other programs seem to keep to the available screen (I though that was a standard Windows error trap - obviously not).

All in all, we are still ,after a year, ytring to find ways to put panes where we want, and make them stay there!

Jerome_Pearce

BTW, for a dual display, we found it better to manually extend the main Designer windows across as much space as desired. We can then place all panes within the Designer window, which minimised lost panes. You can position panes so that they all take up the second monitor, making it seem like they are separate 'over there' (although my monitors are adjacant).

You might want to try that to see if it works.

Finlaysons IT

It is rather frustrating that the panes can be undocked but are rendered unuseable by problems such as this, they should have just left them so they cant be undocked instead of teasing us like this! I hadn't thought of the spanning across two displays, however I tend to have stuff on the second monitor to reference, but that is OK this is something to look at.

Shortly I will be getting some very nice dual 23" widescreen monitors so I shouldnt have any issues with screen real-estate (oh boy I can wait for that real-estate).