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  Toggle floatable state of Director panels

  Fetched: October 17th, 2008, 9:46pm CDT

  While messing with the OI I found out, that you can change the floating madness of directors tool windows. Maybe this is not news to everyone, since it should be possible since 4 years, but just in case it may interest:
  It is actually only a simple boolean value in directors prefs.

  
  I am now on another machine and I can see, that the values are different.

  I've written a small shell script now, which should care of these issues.

  Please be aware of the fact, that setting the panels to non floating may cause unexpected results.
  especially in conjunction with grouping the panels it may lead to errors. I suspect for more proper implementation one would need to investigate further, if there are settings which windows can be grouped with which windows (I think so...)

  anyway download and unstuff the shell script with:

  
  curl [farbflash.de] | ditto -x - toggleDirectorPanels ; cd toggleDirectorPanels ; cat Readme.txt

  then change the permissions with
  

  
  chmod 755 toggleDirectorPanels.sh

  and execute the script with:
  

  
  ./toggleDirectorPanels.sh "Object Inspector"

  or
  

  
  ./toggleDirectorPanels.sh "Property Inspector"

  
  Please note, that this is not anymore necessary when using Director 11. There is now an option in the upper right "Panel group menu" to toggle the float state of every window.