OpenEuphoria

Re: Looking for Ideas for Tab Control

• Posted by Antonio Alessi <a.admin at myway.it> Apr 17, 2006
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Hi there Antonio,
> 
> 
> Oh yes, i really like the idea of the context menu to 'jump' to a 
> particular tab.  This is a great idea.
> I also like the idea before too, with the arrow buttons on BOTH
> sides of the tabs...although i've modified this now to:
> Have up/down controls on both sides of the tabs, but just above
> the tab rows.  In between the two controls have a "Title" similar
> to a caption bar in a regular window, which allows the user to
> 'name' their set of tabs (or keep it blank of course).
> Adding to this your idea of the popup menu i think that should do
> it.  The popup menu would do it by itself too i think.
> 
> This will appear in my new version of the LaunchPad in the near future.
> 
> 
> Thanks much, and take care,
> Al
> 

I'm happy you appreciate the idea; but don't undervalue that to be really
efficient the popup menu must allow to filter somehow files or filetype 
or other, since the number of loaded files can always exceed the available 
display space, so that even a plain popup menu may become insufficient to 
the scope: the user should not need to scroll it until possible.

BTW reading your answer another idea joined my thoughts: 
could we think to a kind of TAB including other TABs? 
e.g. create TABs able to group TABs, this would be functional! 
I must think over that; let me know your opinion about too.

antonio