Customizing the Kanzi Studio interface

You can customize the Kanzi Studio interface. You can open new, rearrange, dock, and close windows to make the environment that best suits your needs.

To restore the workspace to the default state, in the main menu select Window > Reset Workspace.

Opening windows

To open a new window select Window and select the window you want to open:

Rearranging windows in your workspace

You can rearrange your workspace by docking, undocking, opening and closing windows.

To undock click the header of the window and drag it either to a new location in the guide diamond, or drop it to keep the window floating.

To close a window, click the X in the header of the window you want to close.

To dock a window:

  1. Click the header of the window you want to dock.
    A guide diamond appears in the center of the area where the window is.
  2. Drag the window over the area where you want to dock it, and move it over the corresponding portion of the guide diamond.
    The area where the window docks becomes shaded.
  3. Release the mouse button to dock the window in the indicated position.

Adding any window as a tab to another window

You can add any window as a tab to any other window to see more than one type of content in the same window.

To add any window as a tab to another window:

  1. Click and drag the header of the window over the window where you want to add it as a tab, and move it over the central part of the guide diamond.

  2. Release the mouse button to add the window as a tab.

Using offline documentation

When you are connected to the Internet, and in Kanzi Studio press F1 or select Help > Documentation, Kanzi Studio points your default web browser to the Kanzi documentation website.

To sign in to the Kanzi Support Portal and to use the Kanzi online documentation, in your browser you must allow these cookies:

To view the Kanzi documentation when you are not connected to the Internet, in Kanzi Studio select Edit > User Preferences and disable the Online documentation setting. When disabled Kanzi Studio uses the documentation installed in the <KanziWorkspace>/Documentation directory.

NOTE

The documentation installed with Kanzi in the <KanziWorkspace>/Documentation directory is released with your installation of Kanzi, while we update the documentation available at docs.kanzi.com between Kanzi releases.

See also

Tutorial: Getting started with Kanzi Studio

What is installed with Kanzi?