Configuring Kexi
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Chapter 4.  Configuring Kexi

This chapter describes how you can configure Kexi to suit your own needs and preferences.

Window Layout

Kexi provides a Mutiple Document Interface (MDI). This means that you can have several database objects (such as tables, queries, forms and scripts) open at the same time and in the same Kexi main window. Each database object is shown in a child window within the main window.

There is a choice of two MDI modes available, allowing a choice of how child windows are managed and displayed. The two modes are:

  • IDEAl Mode; and

  • Childframe Mode.

These modes are described in the following two sections. You can change the MDI mode from the MDI Mode sub-menu under the Window menu. Note that changing the MDI mode requires Kexi to be restarted before the new mode takes effect.

IDEAl mode

IDEAl mode is the default MDI mode, and may be familiar from other TDE applications. In this mode, a single child window is shown maximized within the Kexi main window at once. A tab bar, containing one tab for each child window, allows other child windows to be viewed by simply clicking on the relevant tab.

Childframe mode

In Childframe mode, child windows are displayed in the main Kexi window, but need not be maximized within it. In order to use Childframe mode, you need to select Window, MDI Mode, Childframe Mode from the menu.

Each child window has a titlebar with buttons for maximizing, minimizing and closing it. They can also be moved and resized within the main window in the normal way (for example, they can be moved by clicking and dragging the title bar).

The buttons behave as follows: the right-most button closes the child window. The button on its left maximizes the child window - note this causes the buttons to move to the top right of the main window, above the Properties editor if it is open. The next button to the left toggles the child window between minimized and restored.

The left-most button detaches, or undocks, the child window, allowing it to be moved out of the main window. For more information on docking and undocking windows, see the next section.

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