Originally reported by: Anonymous

Matlab IDE has a feature that I uses quite often:
Whenever you double-click the title-bar of a window, it maximizes, and becomes the only window remaining. It is really helpful when you need to place matlab side-by-side with some other texts.

Please consider adding this feature to IEP, no need to add it to every tools, maximizing the editor and shell would be enough.

I tried to edit the source code myself, and for the editor it seems to works fine, but not for the shell window. Here is what I got so far:

in class EditorTabs:

is_maximized = False

def toggleMaximize(self):
    """ Toggle maximize status of the editor window. """
    from iep.tools import ToolManager
    for toolname in iep.toolManager.getLoadedTools():
        tool = iep.toolManager.getTool(toolname) 
        if self.is_maximized:
            tool.parent().show()
        else:
            tool.parent().hide()

    if self.is_maximized:
        iep.shells.parent().show()
    else:
        iep.shells.parent().hide()

    self.is_maximized = not self.is_maximized                    
    self.show()

Thank you for the excellent work.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/iep-project/iep/issue/289