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In article <92225.104721DK6TOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET>,
Dan Karipides <DK6TOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
>
>I'm just getting use to using the Workframe that comes with CSet/2.
>Everything SEEMS nice, but I'm finding some things in the Workframe
>are counter-intuative.  Some problems and related questions:
>
>(1) Say I'm editing a file in a open project; call it main.c.  I then switch
>    to the PM helpbook to find info on a WinFunction.  I return to the
>    workframe but my editor window is now hidden.  So I click on the main.c
>    line of my open project.  Workframe fires up another copy of the
>    editor that is editing the old version of main.c.  The fastest way I've
>    found of bringing back the "real" main.c is to find some visible desktop,
>    do a MB1&MB2 and bring up the tasklist.  This can't be the expected way
>    to do this.  Any suggestions?

Go to the Configure->preferences menu, and select "capture tools".  This
will make the editor a child of the WorkFrame, and thus allow it to float
above the WorkFrame client area.  You can also use the switch list, which
is a customizable version of the WPS task list.  Select Configure->
Switch list to select which OS/2 sessions appear on this pulldown.  If
you've selected capture tools, they will appear in the Windows->Sessions
pulldown instead.

Alternatively, simply resize the WorkFrame client area (the main window,
with the action bar) down to only the action bar.  The other dialogs
(the project windows, etc) will still display just fine, and you'll be
able to see other windows much easier.

>(2) And a followup to #1.  Is there any easy way to switch between the
>    Workframe and a help window?  The best way I've found is to have
>    the workframe about one pel from the left edge of the screen.  I then
>    put the help window all the way to the left.  By pushing the mouse all
>    the way to the left, I can switch to the help window.  There is usually
>    enough of the Workframe visible to switch back.  Again, is this how
>    the Workframe was designed or am I missing something obvious?

Most of the above suggestions apply here as well.  What I do is:
 - resize the client down to only the action bar
 - start all/most of the help & references that I'll want, and then
   use Configure->Switch list to make those the only items that show
   up in the switch list.
I can now see most of the windows that I want, and even if I can't,
they are quick and easy to find on either the Switch list or the Windows
pulldown.

Hope that helps.   -tim