CorelDRAW should have a Maximize Work Area button and shortcut.
What about another shortcut key when pressed and hold, all bars, boxes and pallets appear temporarily (and without any changes of zoom level), and return hidden when the button released?
Adobe products do that with the <Tab> key. I've found that you need it with their products because their tool palettes take up too much space.
But it's proven to be quite annoying to have to toggle back and forth to click on one tool button.
Consider this. If you've seen the cool animated icon strips that Vista and the Mac OS's use then you could think of at least the toolbar buttons on the side doing the same thing, except they are hidden off the side.
Corel's Dockers could also be enhanced by allowing them to expand out whenever your mouse pointer hovers over the associated docker button. And collapse after leaving the opened palette for a second.
Maybe, we could still be allowed to edit when in <F9> full preview mode... just think! No clutter at all, just pure artwork space and the currently selected tool.
Magic said:Consider this. If you've seen the cool animated icon strips that Vista and the Mac OS's use then you could think of at least the toolbar buttons on the side doing the same thing, except they are hidden off the side.Corel's Dockers could also be enhanced by allowing them to expand out whenever your mouse pointer hovers over the associated docker button. And collapse after leaving the opened palette for a second.
I think bars and palettes auto-show will contaminate your "pure artwork space"; you will not be able to play freely near the boundaries. Actually you will lose some of your work area.
Magic said:Maybe, we could still be allowed to edit when in <F9> full preview mode... just think!
All guidelines, grid and non-printable layers are not shown in Full-screen preview (to see how the drawing will look when print and export). Maximize Work Area functionality is deferent from Full-screen preview's (F9); we should have both.