I've upgraded from X6 and Tabs are driving me insane. I drag in any number of images to view and work on them side by side. What do I need? - auto-resizing, floating windows and all the real estate I can muster.
1) Sure, open images using Open or Open Recent... and if the Option is set to "Open documents in floating window" they will open in floating windows, but drag them in from Windows Explorer and they tab. Can we have consistency here? Better still, can we get rid of tabs?
2) Tabs should be optional. They take up real estate and get in the way of working with multiple images.
3) The snap feature which opens the image to full workspace should also be an option. Why should I have to use Ctrl just to dock windows across the top? Lunacy.
4) no auto-resize of the floating window? Seriously? I mean, seriously? Corel clearly wants me to use tabs, but seriously, no auto-resize of the windows? Really? How many lines of coding must that have saved?
Here's where I'm coming from. I use SolidEdge CAD and when they introduced a revolutionary non-history-based method of creating 3D objects they had the good sense to maintain the old history-based method for those who preferred it. Everybody was happy. Cannot the same be done here and allow floating windows exactly as they were in X6, just for those of us who prefer/need that way of working?
Ronny, yesterday I used Shift+F5 to cascade multiple images and discovered all subsequent files dragged onto the workspace came in auto-sized, just like X6, which was fantastic. Did I imagine that, because today I can't get new images to auto-size at all. What could I be doing different?
Discovered that an image brought to the 2018 workspace through New From Clipboard, Open, Open Recent or Open With... (Connect or Explorer) appear in an AUTO-SIZED window. So it CAN be done.
Question - is it at all possible to drag an image in from Explorer into a floating, auto-sized window in 2018?
As far as I know, "Shift+F5" (cascaded windows) can not be set to be default, but I might be wrong.Not sure about the auto-size issue either, but you know you can set the default zoom level when opening files?It can be found in Options > Workspace > General, Opening zoom.It sounds like "Best Fit" should be what you want.And by the way, F4 will zoom to fit so it is really easy to make the image fit after resizing a window, but I assume you already knew?
Ronny Axelsson said:F4 will zoom to fit
Ah, you've fallen into the trap! That's resizing image to window, not window to image. There is also "Open documents in floating windows" in Options, the trouble is, it specifically doesn't work for drag and drop. If only!
What I think they are missing are alignment guide icons that you see in some other programs which use a Tabbed MDI. You can do it in DRAW, it's just not quite as easy or intuitive because IMO it only shows target areas as grayed out portions of the screen that can be hard to hit. The obvious advantages of tabs besides their use on multiple monitors that I see are multiple documents in specific tabbed groups and is much more flexible than the older style.