Windows and Panes

Some of the windows in Morpheus Photo Mixer are actually docking panes which can be attached to the sides of the window, or they can be floated on top of the entire program. Each Docking pane has an auto hide button and a close button in their upper right corners. The help screens are all docking panes, and the Timeline and Preview windows are also docking panes by default. The Timeline and Preview windows can each be made into normal windows like the picture windows by unchecking the Timeline Dockable or Preview Dockable options under the View menu.

Closing a pane with the close button works just like closing a normal window. You can reshow the Timeline and Preview windows by selecting those options from the View menu. Help panes can be reshown by selecting them from the Help menu.

When you press the auto hide button the docking pane will hide itself and leave behind a tab with its name on it. When you hover over the tab, the pane will pop back up on top of the window until you move your mouse away. If you click on the docking pane, it will stay visible until you click on a different window or docking pane. Press the auto hide button again to dock the pane back in a permanent position if you no longer want it to automatically hide and show itself like this.

When you have two or more panes docked in the same location, you will also see tabs for each docking pane. Only one of the panes will be visible at a time and clicking on the tabs changes which pane you see. You can also click and drag the tabs to rearrange the order however you like.

If you click and drag a docking pane's title, or click and drag the tab when more than one pane is docked at the same location, you can move the pane to another location. These buttons will help you dock a pane by allowing you to drag the mouse to either one of the four edge buttons in order to dock the pane to a particular side of the window, or to the middle button which will dock the pane with an existing pane.

Panes can be resized when they are docked by dragging the edge; similar to how normal windows can be resized. Panes that are docked and not set to auto hide will take up space that regular windows cannot use. So if you need more room for your picture windows, you can either shrink the size of the docking panes or set them to auto hide.

By default, the regular windows, such as all of the picture windows, are always maximized and shown on a tab bar. The windows can be separated into groups of tabs, and each group has left and right buttons to move through the tabs when many windows are open at once, along with the familiar close button .

The window tabs can be clicked and dragged for reordering, or they can be dragged to other groups. Drag a tab to the edges of a group to split the group in half, creating a new group.

If you do not like the tab groups, and want the windows to have the familiar minimize, maximize, and close buttons , you can select View / Window Tabs / No Window Tabs. With this option, windows can be moved and resized inside of the main Morpheus Photo Mixer window. There is also the View / Window Tabs / With Regular Windows option, which will use regular windows with the minimize, maximize, and close buttons, but it will also have a tab bar showing all open windows. This hybrid option does not allow tabs to be grouped like the default option. Without tab groups, when a window is not maximized, you can use the Snap Window option under the Picture menu to snap the edges of the window around the picture space, eliminating the extra border area.

When using the View / Window Tabs / With Tab Groups mode, which is the default, the Cascade, Tile Horizontally, Tile Vertically, Arrange Icons, and Windows option for the window manager will not be available under the Window menu, because with the tab groups, all windows are always maximized. You can still select a window for focus from the Window menu, but clicking on the tabs in the tab bar has the same effect. The Snap Window option is also unavailable with tab groups.

The Windows skin can be changed by selecting a different skin from View / Skin. There are several varieties of skins to choose from, including a basic one to use the native OS style instead. The functionality of the program is not affected by the skins, although some skins may have less visual cues for hovering or dragging effects.