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3. Basics of PhotoLine

## 3.10 Dockable Dialogs

Helper dialogs like the Tool Settings or the Color List are "dockable" in PhotoLine. "Dockable" means, that the dialog can be attached to another dockable dialog. These dialog stacks make the user interface tidier.

Furthermore on Windows dockable dialogs can be attached to the edges of the main window. By doing so they will automatically adjust to size changes of the main window.

On macOS dockable dialogs can be docked to the edges of the screen.

If you have docked dialogs to an edge, document windows will not be placed behind those dialogs. If, in addition, a dialog stack docked on the left or right also completely uses up the space available in height, expanding or collapsing a dialog automatically resizes the other dialogs in the stack. This ensures that the available space is always used optimally.

If a dialog should be placed at an edge without docking, you can do so by holding the Ctrl-key (Windows) or the Command-key (macOS) while dragging.

Different configurations of the dockable dialogs can be saved as dialog settings (see chapter 7.3.1 and chapter 7.3.2).

Dockable dialogs can have a helper menu with useful commands. This is indicated by 3 small dots in the upper-right corner and is called the window menu.

The context menu of the titlebar of dockable dialogs offer a quick access to your dialog settings. Furthermore, you can use this menu to change the orientation of the dialog between horizontal (titlebar is at the left edge) and vertical (titlebar is at the top).