Using the Window-list bar

The AQT window-list bar provides an easy way of switching between the windows in your AQT session.

To activate a particular AQT window, click on the button for that window.

Managing AQT's open windows

When you right-click a button, you see a number of options for customizing the appearance of the window-list bar, and for performing actions on the AQT windows:

Using these actions, you can:

• Arrange > Cascase or Tile the open AQT windows.
• Selective Tile gives you the ability to tile particular windows.
• restore (activate), minimise or maximise an AQT window.
• close an AQT window. The Selective Close option makes it easy to close a large number of windows
• you can also close an AQT window by middle-clicking a tab. A middle-click can be done by clicking the mouse-wheel.
• Rename the button in the toolbar. You may use this to give the button a more meaningful name.
• specify whether you want to see a Close button on each of your buttons

Customizing the Window-list bar

You can use the options in the right-click menu to customize the appearance of the window-list bar. Some of these options are discussed in more detail below.

Window-list Button

When this option is selected, you will get a drop-down button at the left side of the toolbar. This shows you a list of all open AQT windows, grouped by database connection. This provides an alternative mechanism for navigating between AQT windows when you have a large number of windows.

Window-list Bar Position

You can position the window-list bar at the top, bottom, left or right of the main AQT window. Having the window-list bar on the left (as per the following screen-shot) is very useful if you have a lot of AQT windows open.

Caption Size

The window-list buttons will expand to fit the size of the captions. To prevent the buttons getting too wide, there are a number of options to control the size of the captions:

There are a number of other options that control the size of the buttons.

• you can specify the maximum number of characters in the caption with Options > Window-List bar > Maximum characters in caption
• you can Rename a button to give it a shorter (or longer) caption
• when displaying a table in the Data Display window, the caption is the table name. With Options > Window-List bar > Caption if formed from you can specify whether the caption is schema.tablename, or just tablename.

Close Button

Each of the window-list button has a Close Button (indicated by the x) on the right. This makes it fast to close AQT windows.

You can choose not to have the Close button by right-clicking the Windows-list bar and de-selecting Options > Show Close Button.

Order of Buttons in the Window-list bar

When you have multiple windows open, the buttons will appear in the Window-list bar grouped by window type. There are other options for the button order:

• Options > Window-list bar > Group Data Display and Chart windows with their parent window. When this option is selected, the buttons for the Data Display and Chart windows will appear immediately after the button for the window which invoked them.
• Window-list Button. When you click on this, the windows are shown grouped by database connection.

You can also change the order by the buttons by holding down the ALT key and dragging a button to a new location.