The following enhancements have been made to the user interface in Director 11.

• Tabbed layout in the center docking channel. Document windows appear as separate tabs in the center docking channel. Stage, Score, and all media editors are the default document windows. The Stage and Score windows can be docked together by pressing Ctrl and then dropping the Score window over the Stage window.
• Floating and unfloating windows. The Float and Unfloat options in the Options menu enable you to float or unfloat a tool window.

  Floating windows are tool windows that can be grouped with other tool windows but cannot be grouped with any document windows.

  Unfloated tool windows are document windows that layer with, and can be docked with other unfloated tool windows.

• Message and Cast Windows as tool windows. By default, the Message and Cast windows appear as tool windows. As floating windows, they can be also be docked in the docking channels. You can convert them to document windows by using the Unfloat option.
• The Stage and Score panels can be docked together. The location of the Score in relation to the Stage can now be customized. The splitter bar can be used to resize the Stage and Score. The Score can also be undocked from the Stage and placed in separate windows (when not in maximized tab view mode) or tabs (in maximized tab view mode). To place them in separate tabs, exit the maximized tabbed view, undock the Stage and Score, and return to the maximized tabbed view.
• Media editors are no longer grouped. New media editors appear as separate tabs in the maximized tabbed view. Windows users can add new tabs for a media editor by clicking the Plus button.
• Exiting and re-entering the tabbed view. Windows’ users can exit the tabbed document mode by clicking the Restore button. Mac users can use the Break Apart Tabbed Documents option in the Window menu to enter into the untabbed mode, where all the tabs from the tabbed document window are split up into separate windows. To re-enter the tabbed mode, Windows users click the maximize box on any document window, and Mac users use the Tab Documents Together option in the Window menu. If the Score and Stage are docked together in the maximized tabbed view, they will continue to be docked even after you exit that mode.
• The debugger is now a separate window from the script window. When you open the debugger window and click the Stage in the maximized tabbed view, the debugger window is relocated to the back of the Stage. It can be brought to front by using the shortcut Ctrl+F11 or Cmd+F11.
• Collapsing a panel. To collapse a panel, you have to click the title of the panel, unlike in previous versions where clicking on any portion of the title bar collapsed the panel.
• MIAWs are not present in tabs and remain as separate document windows like the debugger. Only MIAWS created as tool MIAWS can be docked in the docking channels.
• MIAWS behind the Stage can be brought to front using the open() lingo function for MIAWS.