CONTROL PANELS91Arranging control panelsThe control panels have several features that allow you to arrange them ina way that is most efficient for your application.A control panel associated with the main window is opened and brought ontop of the other windows by clicking on its icon in the navigator. Any con-trol panel can be opened and brought on top of the other windows, byselecting the window it is associated with, and ticking the panel’s name inthe View menu.Control panels can be stacked to save display space. When panels arestacked, labels are displayed on the bottom of the control panel stack. Toput a control panel on top of the stack, click its label. To add a control panelto a stack, drag either its title bar or its label to either the title bar or labelsof the stack. To remove a panel from a stack, drag its label away from thestack.To dock a (stack of ) panels to the side of its associated window, or to theside of, or below another panel that is already docked to this window, dragits title bar to the desired position using the mouse cursor.It is possible to scroll the content of a control panel up and down, when itis too small to display all the parameters it contains. To do this, move themouse cursor over an area where it changes to a four pointed arrow. Then,drag the content up and down with the mouse cursor.Storing and retrieving the workspaceWhen panels are opened, they appear at predefined places in the main win-dow. This arrangement of the ‘workspace’ is stored in the configuration file‘Default EZ2-AFM.gui’ or ‘Default EZ2-STM.gui’ by default. The loca-tion of the configuration files on the hard-disk depends on the operatingsystem you use. Functions for storing and retrieving the workspace areaccessed via the menu ‘File>Workspace’.‘Save’ saves the workspace to the currently selected workspace file.‘Save as...’ saves the current arrangement of the panels under another name.‘Load’ loads a previously saved workspace.
