<type>documentation</type>
<domain>custom</domain>
<id>gui-windowing-policy</id>
<title>Windowing Policies</title>
<date>$Date$</date>
<version>$Revision$</version>
<product>per+</product>

Wing can run in a variety of windowing modes.  This is controlled by
the `User Interface > Layout > Windowing Policy`__ preference, which 
provides the following options:

__ script:show_preferences_gui#prefname="gui.windowing-policy"

* **Combined Toolbox and Editor Windows** -- This is the recommended default, with a 
  single window that contains all the editors and two toolbox areas.

* **Separate Toolbox Windows** -- This mode moves all the tools out to a separate window.

The windowing policy is used to describe the initial configuration and behavior 
of windows in the IDE.  When it is changed, Wing will reconfigure
your projects to match the windowing policy the first time they are used
with the new setting.

~~~if not WING101:
In Wing Pro and Wing Personal, it is possible to create additional windows, and 
editors and tools can be moved to a new window or among existing windows without 
changing the windowing policy.  This is described below.
~~~

