Opening 2 ViewSOLs at once

You can launch a second ViewSOL session with the menu command File...Another ViewSOL. If you do this, then

•the existing ViewSOL is resized to fill the right half of the screen.

•the new ViewSOL fills the left half of the screen. The title bar caption will start with "ViewSol (2)".

You can then open a second file from the ViewSOL (2) window.

Arranging ViewSOL to fill half the screen

At the bottom right of the ViewSOL window is a button divided into 9 sections, like this:

Click the middle top section of the button to make ViewSOL fill the top half of the screen; click the middle left section to make ViewSOL fill the left half of the screen; and so on. Click corners to move ViewSOL to a quarter of the screen. Clicking the middle section makes ViewSOL fill the middle part of the screen.

Another ViewSOL from the command line

Normally, if you have ViewSOL running, and you type from the command line:

ViewSOL sim3

sim3.sl4 will be opened in the already-running ViewSOL [although not in an already-running ViewSOL (2)]. However, if you type from the command line:

ViewSOL ;sim3

(ie, prefix the filename with a semicolon) sim3.sl4 will be opened in a new ViewSOL (2).

Fine Print about second instances of TABmate and ViewSOL

Both TABmate and ViewSOL can view several files at once, and both are designed as 'just-one-instance' programs. Each program can be launched from the command-line, or from another program, such as RunDynam or WinGEM. In these cases, if TABmate is already running, then an attempt to open another file will cause the file to be opened in the already-running TABmate (or ViewSOL). If, say from WinGEM, you attempt to view a TAB file when you have two instances of TABmate running, the file will appear in the primary TABmate (ie, not in the 'other' TABmate).  If there is no running primary instance of TABmate, a new one will be created.

URL of this topic: www.copsmodels.com/webhelp/viewsol/hc_twoviewsols.htm

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