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Quick links: |  | Other interface elements Live updating Detatching the menu Quick access to frequently used commands Closing the menu

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DEVONsphere Express' user interface consists of a pop-over window that appears when you click DEVONsphere Express' icon on the right hand side of the menu bar (among the so-called "menu extras"). Other interface elements Toggle automatically hiding the menu when you switch to another window with the switch in the top left corner. This is similar to the same option in Preferences, General tab. . Click the gear icon in the top right corner to open the action menu and access the Preferences window. Switch between See Also and Search mode with the magnifying glass and buttons popping put at the left side of the input field. The input field is white in Search mode and dark in See Also mode. Start and pause live updating of results with the radar icon at the right side of the input field. [Read more...] Live updating With live updating switched on DEVONsphere Express focuses on whatever you select in other applications, e.g. your frontmost document in TextEdit, the web page you're looking at in Safari, or the file you've selected in the Finder. While this is often useful, sometimes it is not, e.g. when you need to continue working with the shown results for the moment. Therefore DEVONsphere Express allows you to stop live updating. Live updating is signalized by a little green icon at the right-hand end of the input field. Live update is switched on and active. Live update is temporarily paused. Live update is switched off; click to switch it on again. Detatching the menu DEVONsphere Express' menu can also be placed anywhere on the screen. Detatch it from the menu bar by dragging its title bar. It becomes a panel floating above all other windows. Drag it back near the menu bar to reattach it, click the attach button of the panel, or close it wit the close button and click the menu extra icon again to reopen attached to the menu bar. Quick access to frequently used commands Right- or ⌃Control-click DEVONsphere Express' icon to show a menu with a number of useful commands from the Action menu. Closing the menu Click the menu extra icon to close the menu/panel or press the ⎋ key.