Is there a way to hide the breadcrumbs' bar on html editor and toolbar buttons (Error List, Output, etc)? I like my editor as clean as posible.
Also if there is a way to autohide the status bar when I'm not building, it would be helpful. Thank you!
(Disclaimer: I worked on Visual Studio)
The "HTML Designer/Editor"-mode in Visual Studio does not let you hide the breadcrumb bar, however you can force-open HTML files in the XML editor and so not have the breadcrumb bar, but it's only ~20px of vertical space, this shouldn't be an issue unless you're using a small display. You can select the XML editor by choosing "Open with..." when opening a file.
As for the Window tabs (Error List, Output, etc): if you show the windows and then click the Pin button, you can then tear-off the entire window set and close them all at once with the close button, they will then re-appear if you manually choose to or keep them as floating windows.
The status bar can be hidden by going Tools > Options > Environment > Show Status Bar, however I don't believe there is no way to have it automatically show/hide if content changes.
However, why are you wanting to hide these UI elements? The vertical space the Status bar and Window tabs consume is about 55px at 96dpi, even at 1366x768 it isn't enough screen-space to worry about.
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I downloaded octave and accidentally pressed some buttons which changed the design of the software to be more specific it doesn't look like how my professor at university was working with it . Could you please help me to fix it in order to look like how it did in the beginning?
I upload a picture of how it looks like now
OK, it appears you are only looking at the Editor window, which is normally docked with other windows like the command window, documentation, etc. It also appears to be maximized, hiding everything else.
In the upper right you see two icons, one that looms like an x, and one that looks like two overlapping squares (two windows). If you click the x, that should close the editor and you should be able to see the rest of your desktop including the rest of the octave GUI. If you cannot see octave anywhere, of you are in Windows try using ALT-Tab or clicking on Octave in the task bar to make the window visible.
In the main octave window there should be a "Reset Default Window Layout" menu item under the Window menu. That should restore everything to the default layout without having to go to the trouble of a full reinstall.
The following YouTube video doesn't exactly match your problem, but it does show how to change and restore the GUI layout:
https://youtu.be/0USOvYHLqSU
Let me explain the situation.
I need to copy a lot of instances of a text inside a project of PhpStorm. So, I perform a 'Find in Path' action and a floating window appears with the matching results.
Now my problem is that after copying once from the floating window, if I click on another app window, then PhpStorm's main window/PhpStorm itself go to background, then if I want to copy text from the floating window again, I can not use any keyboard shortcut, I can not modify any line in the floating window because PhpStorm stays in background/inactive-mode even if I click on its floating window.
If I click anywhere in the PhpStorm except the main top-white bar of PhpStorm, then the floating window disappear, which causes me to perform the search again.
It is reducing my productivity a lot. Is there any way to make the PhpStorm active or bring it foreground when clicking its floated search window?
Please see the screenshot:
Is there any way to make the PhpStorm active or bring it foreground when clicking its floated search window?
You are approaching the problem from the a bit wrong angle. There is a better solution than fighting the focus/foreground state.
There is a button in the bottom right corner of "Find in Path" window ("Open in Find" it says on your screenshot) -- click it and it will open search results in traditional / standard Search Results tool window (with grouping by folders/files, preview area etc)... so no floating and no auto closing on clicking somewhere.
P.S. Lots of people forgetting that results shown in this new "Find in Path" dialog/popup is still just a preview (TOP 100 matches only). Super functional (you can edit and stuff) but still preview only. This mainly applies to those who remember the way how this dialog (back then it was dialog window) looked before redesign (now it's more of a popup).
Because of the way how it is all presented now (results occupy majority of the popup space) people somehow automatically forgetting about "traditional" way of searching (clicking actual "Find" button to get search working) and focusing only on what they see on a screen right now.
This new "Find in Path" dialog/popup adds a lot of convenience for sure (you typed search text and results are straight away before your eyes). At the same time quite often you may see/hear "it does not show me all results" frustrated comments (as it shows top 100 .. and a single file may have 100+ hits in some cases) and alike. JetBrains needs to improve UX a bit in this area for sure.
Today I noticed a small menu in the bottom left of Chrome Inspector. Upon clicking the dots, this menu appears. When you select an option, a tab is open in the bottom of inspector, but nothing changes on the page or in inspector.
Does anyone know what this menu is used for?
You've just discovered like 8 new worlds of DevTools features, my friend.
That whole section is called the Drawer. It's collapsed in your screenshot, which is why it seems like nothing is happening. Press Escape to expand it. You should be able to drag the bar to the right of the Search tab to adjust the Drawer's height.
Each of those menu items represents a different tab in the Drawer.
P.S. the Drawer collapses automatically when you're on the Console panel, if you also have the Console Drawer tab open. Otherwise DevTools would have to make sure that the two UIs stay in sync.
P.P.S. the Drawer should probably auto-expand when you click on a menu item, since you obviously want to use that tab. I think that's fixed in later versions of Chrome but I'll file a bug report if not.
Suddenly PhpStorm looks like that:
I deleted and re-installed it. However that didn't change anything.
Type CtrlAltS to open the Settings window. Expand the Editor tree in the left panel. Expand Color Scheme, then click in General. In the right panel, click in Line coverage and uncheck Background checkbox on the right side.
You can also type a shortcut CtrlShiftA to open the actions window and type line coverage.
I feel kind of foolish asking this question but what do I need to do to get started in Sublime Text2. I just installed it and when I open the application I only get a blank page with nothing else, except the sublime text logo in the upper left corner. I can write code, I can open a document but there is no menu to do anything. I could use a little help here. Please.
Everything you need should be under the view menu. So if you you to view > Side Bar > Show Side Bar it will show the directory structure of the current project. There is also show tabs and show minimap.
I would suggest exploring the menus and Googling it.
Command-K, Command-B opens the sidebar.
Check out the View dropdown menu. Shortcuts are usually shown out to the side.
And also checkout out Package Control for plugins.