Detail Pane

Introduction

This pane appears on the right hand side of the display and shows detailed information about the currently selected snippet or section heading, along with some other information (see below).

Tabs

Information is be displayed in one or more tabs. Items selected in the Overview pane are normally displayed in the currently selected tab, overwriting previous contents. This behaviour can be changed as follows:

When more than one tab is displayed you can quickly cycle through them from left to right by pressing Ctrl+Tab or from right to left using Shift+Ctrl+Tab.

You can close tabs in one of three ways:

Some other types of information are always displayed in new tabs. See below for details.

Views

There are various types of item that can be displayed in a details pane tab. These are referred to as "Views".

Every view has a context menu displayed by right clicking or by pressing Alt+F10. The content of this menu various according to the view or the selected element within it.

Each type of view is described below.

Snippet View

The snippet view displays detailed information about a snippet. The display can be customised and may include the following components:

The components present in a snippet view are specific to the snippet kind. The program's default settings for these views can be customised using the Snippet Layout tab of the Preferences dialogue box.

Section Contents View

Selecting a section header (a category, an intial letter or a snippet kind in the Overview Pane causes a table to be displayed in the detail pane that lists the name of the snippets contained in the section, along with their descriptions. Following a search, the listed snippets are just those contained in the current database selection, if any.

Snippet names are links that, when clicked, displays the chosen snippet in the detail pane.

If the section contains no snippets, a message to that effect is displayed instead of a table of contents.

Welcome Page View

The Welcome Page is displayed when the program starts and may also be re-displayed at any time from the View | Welcome Page menu item. This view is always displayed in a new tab.

Database Update View

When the database has been updated, all open tabs are closed and a new tab created that simply informs that the database has been updated successfully.

Empty Tab View

When a new tab is created (View | New Tab or Ctrl+T, nothing is displayed except "Empty Tab" in light grey.

View History

Whenever a snippet or section contents view is displayed, it is added to the view history list. You can return to the immediatly preceeding view by clicking the Previous buttonPrevious toolbar button or by pressing Alt+Left. Once you have gone back in the history list you can go forward once again using the Next buttonNext toolbar button or by pressing Alt+Right.

You can also jump directly to some recent views by selecting its name from the drop-down menus adjacent to the Previous buttonPrevious and Next buttonNext buttons.

Deleting or editing an existing snippet or category will clear the history.

Snippet and Category Links

Links to snippets or categories may be displayed as part of snippet or section contents views.

Clicking a snippet link displays a snippet view for that snippet in the current tab of the details pane, Clicking a category link causes a section contents view to be displayed for the contents of the category, again in the current tab.

Views displayed in this way are added to the history list.