Did you know... You can use Shift+ESC to close a tool window - #142

re: Did you know... You can use Shift+ESC to close a tool window - #142

Sitten Spynne — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:19:06 GMT

I'm glad you posted the screenshot in today's post; in several past tips, the specified shortcut has not worked for me and I had to dig through the list of commands to try and guess what would have the shortcut. My guess is the profile I picked is different than yours, but with a screenshot or at least mention of the command, I can always add the shortcut at my leisure.

re: Did you know... You can use Shift+ESC to close a tool window - #142

Joe User — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:24:43 GMT

Wow, maybe this will help me close a "stuck" Tool window that wont' retract instead of pinning it and unpinning it!

re: Did you know... You can use Shift+ESC to close a tool window - #142

saraford — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:32:16 GMT

@Sitten Spynne: cool, good to hear those images are useful.

@Joe user: what do you mean by "stuck"?

re: Did you know... You can use Shift+ESC to close a tool window - #142

Leo Davidson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:19:05 GMT

This is a handy tip!

Something I really, really miss from Visual Studio 6 is being able to hit Esc, when the main code editor has focus, to close the Output panel (and friends). It was so convenient to free up that space with a single keypress within the source editor, without having to touch the mouse or cycle focus to another panel.

I wrote a macro for VS2005 that was almost as good, but not quite. It was supposed to toggle the things that are typically docked at the button of the screen. It would see if the Output panel was open and if it was it woudl close it and the Error List, Find Results, etc. If it wasn't open then it would open them... But sometimes it goes wrong since some things may be open while others aren't.

Sadly I think I have lost the macro and haven't bothered to re-create it. It's such a pain having to click click click the X button to close the output, error list, etc. panels when you want to maximize the editor space. (Don't get me started on setting those to auto-hide. That's even worse. If the panel pops up then it can obscure the cursor position in the editor, leaving you typing blind. And the slide animation when the panel appears and disappears is frustratingly long.)

This is all in VS2005, so maybe it's better in 2008.

Or is there a built-in solution that I'm just not aware of?

re: Did you know... You can use Shift+ESC to close a tool window - #142

Joe User — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:24:36 GMT

Sometimes, I'll have a tool window that will not retract. I can click on the Tool Window, then on the code space trying to trigger the retration but it never happens. I have to pin, then unpin the tool window, then it retracts.

I've had this happen many many times (VS 2005, BTW).

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re: Did you know... You can use Shift+ESC to close a tool window - #142

mike — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:02:35 GMT

@Leo

You can make the slide animation shorter (or turn it off).

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