Yes, I was kidding - hence the smilie.nobudget wrote:I was referring to Lost Marble stating "Maybe for version 6 we'll go back to one window and everyone can take turns loving or hating the interface". It was a joke (I think) but it was not a satisfying answer because it still does not explain why there is no docking option.
As far as a satisfactory answer, I guess there are two reasons:
1. Moho uses a custom user interface engine. This gives us great benefits like easy cross-platform compatibility, but it also makes some things hard or impossible. An example being docking windows: our user interface toolkit just doesn't have that feature.
2. Maybe it's because our toolkit doesn't support docking windows, but to be honest, we never considered them. Personally, I really dislike docking windows. It seems that when you try to dock them, you never really know quite where they'll end up. Everybody seems to have their own personal preferences...
I have to disagree here. It seems to me that version 5 can be set up almost exactly like version 4. Here's a version 4 screenshot:nobudget wrote:As regarding to your comment "can't you arrange the windows so it looks like it did with 4.5 anyway" the answer is "no".
And here's a version 5 screenshot with the windows arranged to be as close as possible. I honestly don't see any significant difference between these two:
Plus, version 5's multiple windows give you more flexibility. For example, when animating, you can get rid of the Style window and make the Timeline much larger so you can concentrate on your keyframes:
Or, when drawing, you can get rid of the other windows altogether. As long as you learn the hotkeys, you can even get rid of the Tools window:
And of course, if you're lucky enough to have two monitors, you can set up one with the main Moho window, and one with a giant timeline (especially nice if you like to work in graph mode):
The only real problem I see is if you maximize the main Moho window. In that case, yes, the menus can go behind other windows and the editing view can be blocked by them:
This is a problem, but the solution is just "don't do that". In Photoshop you can block your work area with floating windows too. There are tons of professional Photoshop users out there who either don't do that or learn to work with floating windows in the way:
My advice would be to just not maximize the main Moho window. Go ahead and resize it manually as large as you want and avoid placing the floating windows on top of it - it really doesn't seem that hard.