Objects Panel for Experienced PFC Users

The first section of the tree, the “Project” branch, should seem familiar to experienced users: it is a tree-form presentation of the contents of the Project Pane in versions of PFC prior to Version 9.0.

Users of the i Objects panel in version 9.0 are advised that drag-and-drop operations on data files, save files, and plots may be easier and less user-error prone as compared to double-clicking on them to open/call/restore.

The double-click behavior was more apt for the tabbed layout environment that previous versions used to provide multiple content containers. The current user interface provides splitting for a similar purpose, but this requires being mindful of the active workspace window. Though double clicking still works (for interface “backward compatibility”), it can produce unintended results if used on the wrong workspace window. Drag-and-drop from the tree is explicit and not subject to misdirection errors.

Turn Off Double-Click

If habitual double-clicking is routinely producing unintended results, users are advised that one means of preventing this would be to use the switch in the options panel settings to turn double-click off for all tree items—which would then force the user to right-click or drag-and-drop to perform operations on items in the “Project” branch.