Introduction

The Document Bar of Atlantis works similarly to the Windows Taskbar. But instead of displaying currently working applications as buttons, each button of the Document Bar corresponds to a document currently open in Atlantis:

With the Document Bar you can switch among open documents as easy as you switch among running programs through the Windows Taskbar. Just click a button of the Document Bar to activate the corresponding document.

The Document Bar can be also used to perform a number of operations on multiple documents.

Showing and hiding the Document Bar

You can toggle the Document Bar on or off by choosing the "View | Document Bar | Show" menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

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If the Document Bar is currently on, you can also hide it by right-clicking it, and choosing the "Hide Document Bar" command from the popup menu.

Note that the Document Bar doesn't display if you have only one document open in Atlantis, and the "Hide Document Bar for single document" option is checked on the "View" tab of the "Tools | Options..." dialog of Atlantis.

Reordering buttons

When you open new documents in Atlantis, they are added in sequence to the right of the Document Bar. The location of any particular document on the bar will probably be unimportant if few documents are open. But things might be different when a wide variety of documents are open. In this case, you might want to bring related buttons together on the bar for easier access. This is done by simple drag & drop. Just grab a button on the bar with the mouse pointer, and drag it to its new location:

Closing documents

You can close a document by hovering the mouse over the corresponding Document Bar button, and clicking the small cross button:

You can also close a document with drag & drop. Simply drop the document's button outside the Document Bar area:

The Document Bar position

You can change the position (alignment) of the Document Bar through the "View | Document Bar | Position" menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

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The Document Bar can be:

• top-aligned:

• bottom-aligned:

• left-aligned:

• right-aligned:

• or embedded in toolbars:

Resizing the Document Bar

When the Document Bar is embedded in toolbars, and the Document Bar is not wide enough to accommodate the buttons of all open documents, some document buttons don't display within the main part of the Document Bar. In this case, you can hover the mouse over the Document Bar to open the flyout part of the Document Bar with the remaining document buttons:

You can control how many document buttons appear in the main part of the embedded Document Bar by changing the Document Bar's width. You can do so through the "Tools | Customize | Toolbars..." menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

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In case with non-embedded Document Bar, when you have many files open in Atlantis, and the Document Bar cannot display all the document buttons, two scroll buttons are displayed in the Document Bar:

You can use them to scroll the contents of the Document Bar in order to bring the buttons of the required documents into view.

But scrolling the Document Bar to locate a particular document might prove cumbersome. Also when you have documents with long filenames, these might display only partially in the Document Bar. In such cases, you could resize the Document Bar so that it could display more information simultaneously. To resize the Document Bar, grab the edge of the Document Bar with your mouse pointer:

and drag until you achieve an adequate size:

More customization options

Additional customization options for the Document Bar are available through its right-click menu:

The "Maximum width" option is offered for top- and bottom-aligned Document Bar:

When this option is checked, the Document Bar's width always matches the width of the Atlantis main window:

When the "Maximum width" option is unchecked, and there are left- or right-aligned elements in the Atlantis window - the Control Board or the vertical toolbars - the Document Bar's width matches the width of the document editing area in the Atlantis window:

For the left- and right-aligned Document Bar, the right-click menu includes the "Vertical Buttons" option:

When this option is checked, the Document Bar displays vertical (rotated) buttons:

The "Centered Buttons" option is available for the unresized top- and bottom-aligned Document Bar, and for the unresized Document Bar with vertical (rotated) buttons:

When this option is on, the buttons are centered within the Document Bar horizontally or vertically depending on its align:

When this option is off, the buttons are either left-aligned or top-aligned within the Document Bar:

When the "File Extensions" option is checked, the Document Bar buttons display the file extension of associated document filenames:

Otherwise, the Document Bar buttons display no file extension:

When the "Sort Buttons" option is checked, all the Document Bar buttons get automatically sorted in alphabetical order.

Tips:

• You can change the background color of the Document Bar by changing the background color of toolbars through the "Tools | Customize | Toolbars..." menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:
  
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• Captions of the Document Bar buttons of modified documents with unsaved changes display in red:
  
  
  
  To save changes to a modified document, you can just double-click its button on the Document Bar.
• You can switch among the open documents by pressing Alt1, Alt2, ..., Alt9, or CtrlTab.
  Alt0 displays the complete list of open documents.

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