Accessory pane

Accessory pane

The Accessory pane is an area below the article, which can be shown or hidden by clicking on one of the buttons in the Article Button Bar below the article. The Accessory pane contains the following functions, or 'Accessories':

Button title	Function	Keyboard shortcut
	Icons		Node icons	Ctrl+Alt+I (Icons)
	BkMarks		Bookmarks	Ctrl+Alt+B (Bookmarks)
	History		Node history	Ctrl+Alt+O (histOry)
	SearchR		Search results	Ctrl+Alt+U (resUlts)
	Attachments		Attachments	Ctrl+Alt+A (Attachments)
	DraftPad		DraftPad	Ctrl+Alt+D (DraftPad)

For instance, when the Icons button is clicked, the Accessory pane becomes the Icons pane; when the BkMarks button is clicked, the Accessory pane becomes the Bookmarks pane, etc.

To open an Accessory

Click Main menu ⁄ View ⁄ [Accessory name] which also places a checkmark against the item in the [Accessory name] menu; or
Click the button with the Accessory's name on the Article Button Bar (e.g., click the BkMarks button to activate the BookMarks pane); or
Press Ctrl+Alt+[letter] (e.g., press Ctrl+Alt+B for BookMarks); or

To close an Accessory

Click Main menu ⁄ View ⁄ [Accessory name] again which also unchecks the item in the View menu; or
Click the Article button on the Article Button Bar; or
Press Ctrl+Alt+[letter] (e.g., press Ctrl+Alt+B for BookMarks); or

Accessory pane features

If you want to restore focus to the Accessory pane (e.g. after working in the Tree pane or Article pane), click anywhere in the Accessory pane. If the current pane contains a list of nodes (e.g. BkMarks, History, SearchR panes) an alternative trick is to click one of the column tabs such as Name or Path, which are currently functionless in these panes but will change focus to the pane. Pressing the cursor (arrow) keys after right-clicking will move the highlight to other items, confirming that the Accessory pane has focus.

Single items within the Accessory pane (e.g., a node in a list) may be selected by pressing the cursor (arrow) keys to move the highlight to them, and activated by pressing Enter.

When hyperlinks are activated by double-clicking¹, left-clicking or right-clicking selects the item; double-clicking activates the item.

When hyperlinks are activated by single-clicking¹, right-clicking selects the item; left-clicking or double-clicking activates the item.

While the Accessory pane is open, you can switch between its functions by clicking the corresponding button on the Article Button Bar representing the function you want, or by pressing the appropriate shortcut key. E.g., if the pane displays Bookmarks, you can change the display to History by clicking the History button or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+O.

For each member pane of the Accessory pane, TreePad 'remembers' the position (height) of the pane separator, even after the file is closed and reopened, so that on reopening the pane it will be the same size as when you closed it.

Within a session, TreePad also 'remembers' the last item selected in each pane after the pane is closed. On closing a file, the contents of the Icons, Bookmarks and DraftPad panes are saved, but History and Search Results are cleared.

Above each column in the Bookmarks, History and Search Results panes is a button identifying the type of data displayed. In this example taken from the Bookmarks pane you can see three buttons named Name, Shortcut and Path.

Clicking the buttons depresses them but has no other effect. However, the width of each column except the rightmost one can be adjusted by clicking the right margin of its corresponding button (turning the mouse cursor into a bidirectional arrow, as shown below), and dragging it left or right to narrow or widen it. In this example, dragging the right margin of the Shortcut button would increase the width of its column.

If you are working in a diminished TreePad where the Accessory pane is too narrow to display the full node title of an item on a list, let the mouse cursor hover over the desired field for about a second and the full name will appear in a tooltip.


No tooltip displayed	Tooltip displayed

See each function for further details.

Notes:

This option is discussed in Activating (following) hyperlinks. Double-clicking is the default.