OpenEuphoria

Re: Ideas for Tab Control: the «Load As»

• Posted by Antonio Alessi <a.admin at myway.it> Apr 18, 2006
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Hi Antonio,
> 
> Well, i think maybe if i wanted to go the toolbar route couldnt
> i just use a listview window and allow users to put whatever they
> wanted in there, and move it around too?
> 
> I wanted to definitely stay away from using menu systems for
> navagation, because they take too long to navigate when there
> are a lot of sub levels.  I liked the idea for the tabs however,
> but we cant get into sub menu levels or it gets just as hard
> to navigate as "Favorites" in Internet Explorer, right?
> 
> You can easily obtain multiple (more than one) lines of tab
> buttons on your tab control by using the TCS_MULTILINE style.
> This means your tab control could have two, three, or more
> lines of tabs instead of just one.  The down side to this is
> you  have to resize the tab windows (area where stuff is
> displayed) every time the number of lines increases (by the user)
> or else leave enough room at the top above displayed items
> for the new tab lines to appear.  You'll have to look into
> how to manage this best.
> 
> For my app i wanted to stick with one line of tabs so as not to
> take up too much room vertically, leaving more room for things
> the user wants to add to the tab pages.
> 
> 
> Al
> 

Great info that of TCS_MULTILINE; but the scroll arrow are lost
this way, and this complicates everything, as usual. 
I agree at all with the one line of tabs; for that I was not speaking 
of sub menu levels: just one line, possibly to direct click (Bang!), 
like I used inside the dEbUg program, that are like buttons;
(or one line as the menu open for to display full path\names, as 
I don't think the menus allow hints), that can gather something 
like 5 to 10 TAB groups. It could be enough for some more years.

I found the Tree more difficult to mantain, and don't believe a 
user wishes to handle a listview for managing his loaded files;
this looks to be a further map to mentally plan and organise,
while who is working needs more and more shortcuts, ie. plain actions;
but may be an impression of mine. What I liked however was the
"Load As" concept, that set up straight off solutions to the user.
The popup menu in my current project remains a kind of solution 
that embraces all these needs.

ciao,
antonio