Virtual Workspace

The SpaceStat user interface is made up of several sections, including the Data view, the spatial weights view, and the log. The rest of the application window, the workspace, is available to fill with the task manager (not shown in the image below), and visualization tools like maps, time plots, scatter plots, and histograms.

Because dynamic data exploration is quite graphical, you may want to keep several windows open to display multiple views of the data.  However, this often means that one or more windows are not visible, either because they are too small to see (when many windows are tiled), or because some are underneath others (as when you use the cascade option).  SpaceStat allows you to turn on a "virtual workspace" so that you can arrange many windows, and then use scroll bars on the workspace (the area surrounded by the data view, spatial weights view, and log) to move through all of the information.

The virtual workspace can be enabled by selecting Use virtual workspace from the Window menu. Note that when the windows are tiled, they will shrink to fit in the visible part of the screen space.