Suggestion: Docking of unpinned panels

[geoff-ellison]

(posting here as requested by @arboshiki)

What an excellent plugin! This is great work, and very much appreciated.

There's a feature that I'd love to see: the ability to "dock" an unpinned panel to a given pre-set position of the viewport.

This could be exposed by having an option called "dock" and a method called "setDock", which could have the following values:

• "top-left": places the panel up against the top-left corner of the viewport
• "top": places the panel at the top of the viewport, horizontally centred
• "top-full": places the panel at the top of the viewport, occupying full width
• "top-right": places the panel against the top-right corner of the viewport
• "right": places the panel at the right of the viewport, vertically centred
• "right-full": places the panel at the right of the viewport, occupying full height
• "bottom-right": places the panel against the bottom-right corner of the viewport
• "bottom": places the panel at the bottom of the viewport, horizontally centred
• "bottom-full": places the panel at the bottom of the viewport, occupying full width
• "bottom-left": places the panel against the bottom-left corner of the viewport
• "left": places the panel at the left of the viewport, vertically centred
• "left-full": places the panel at the left of the viewport, occupying full height

There could also be some helpful additional docks, such as:

• "dialog": places the dialog horizontally centred, with its top 1/3 from top of viewport

It might also be a good idea to have an option to enforce a dock setting (lockDock?), so that a panel could not be resized on whichever sides that are docked.

Cheers

Geoff.