User`s manual

8. Layout Editor
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Apollo Rel. 1.9 User's Manual
8.3.3.3 Window properties
This dialog has 3 tabs: General, Start and terminate, Advanced.
General
Caption includes the window title used by the system, together with the Window Class, to uniquely identify the
window. The Apollo Layout Management module can work properly only if every window can be clearly identi-
fied with these two attributes.
Activate uppercase/lowercase for a very precise and descriptive caption (case sensitive).
Parts of the title can remain undetermined unless relevant for identification (cf.Identifying windows ). For example,
the caption often depends on the opened file . In this case, an * is indicated in place of the undefined characters.
The Window Class permits distinguishing between different window classes. We recommend retaining the de-
fault setting *. This parameter is useful, however, if you want to distinguish between different windows, which
might have the same title but different window classes. Use the enclosed tool Window Spy to determine win-
dow classes.
Defining Caption and Window Class requires that the characters are entered correctly, see
Identifying windows. Otherwise the windows won't be recognized!
With Type information about the window type is given (normal: application, Pro: ProViewer window, etc.).
You may also enter descriptive information about the window in Description. The description is displayed in the
client area of the window in Remote Desktop. In addition this information is also showed as Tool Tips of the
mini window as well as Tool Tip on the button of this window in the task bar.
Enter the coordinates of the upper left corner point of the window as well as its height and width. If the layout
is assigned to one or more regions, these coordinates refer to the upper left corner of the respective region.
When loading a layout, windows are resized to fit into the respective region even when this option is not
checked on the Advanced tab. Click on ? to specify for the thus marked value that loading a layout does not
modify it.
The Normal, Minimized, Maximized fields allow you to specify the window state when opening a window.