Docking

Organizing the Interface with Docking

Almost every panel and viewer tab in Weasis can be moved, split, pinned, or hidden by dragging it with the mouse. This lets you arrange the workspace around the task at hand — for instance comparing two series side by side, putting the MPR viewer and the 3D Volume Renderer next to each other for crosshair-driven volume cutting, or maximizing a single view for a focused read — without leaving the application.

Central View

The central area is where viewers and players are displayed as tabs. It supports two main layout operations.

Splitting tabs

Reorganize tabs by dragging and dropping them:

• Drag a tab toward an edge (top, bottom, left, or right) of the central area to split the space and display two tabs side by side or stacked.
• Drop a tab onto another tab group to merge it back into a single area.

This makes it possible, for example, to compare two series simultaneously in a split-screen layout, or to keep an MPR tab next to a 3D rendering of the same volume.

Tab contextual menu

The same layout changes are available without dragging since v4.7.3. Right-click a tab to open its contextual menu:

• Split Right — move the tab out of its tab group into a new area on the right, side by side with the tabs left behind.
• Split Down — same, into a new area below the group.
• Move to Other Group — a submenu listing the other tab groups of the central area; choosing one moves the tab into it as a new tab.

The two split entries are only enabled when the tab shares its group with at least one other tab: a tab alone in its area has nothing to split away from. The split always divides the current group in half, so a group that is itself the result of an earlier split can be split again, as deep as needed.

The menu also holds the tab closing actions: Close, Close Others and Close All.

Maximize a tab

A tab can be maximized to occupy the entire application window, including the space normally taken by the tool panels on either side — giving the largest possible viewing area for a single viewer.

• Maximize — click the maximize button in the tab header, or double-click the tab.
• Restore — click the normalize button, or double-click the tab again.

Tool Panels

The strips on the right side of the central area host the tools attached to the active viewer (measurements, image adjustments, display options, segmentation, …). Each tool panel can be managed independently with one of three display modes.

Docked

The default mode: the tool panel is docked in the vertical strip next to the central view. In this mode it is always visible and takes up a fixed portion of the screen.

Pinned as overlay

The tool panel floats on top of the central view without reducing the viewer’s size. Useful when you want the maximum viewing area while keeping quick access to the tools.

• Click the pin icon in the tool panel header to switch to overlay mode.
• The overlay can be repositioned by dragging its title bar.

Minimized (vertical button)

The tool panel collapses to a small vertical button on the side of the interface. Clicking the button temporarily reveals the panel without permanently giving up screen space.

• Click the minimize icon in the tool panel header to collapse it to a button.
• Click the button again to restore the panel.

Rearranging tool panels

Inside the vertical strip, individual tool panels can be split and re-docked relative to each other:

• Drag a tool panel header and drop it above, below, or beside another tool panel to split the tool area and display several tools at once.
• Drop a tool panel onto another tool panel’s tab bar to group them as tabs within the same slot.

This lets you arrange the most-used tools exactly where you want them for a given reading workflow.