OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 18, 2006
• 517 views

Antonio Alessi wrote:
> 
> Hi again AL,
> 
> 
> to complete my idea:
> if a user saves a simple text file like that:
> 
> first group
> ghost group
> crazy group
> special group
> fifth group
> 
> you can build on an [auto]menu bar, for example:
> }}}
<eucode>
>     for i = 1 to 5 do
>         mnu[i] = quickcreate( MenuItem, "!"& mn[i], etc., 0)
>     end for
>     setHandler( mnu[1..5], w32HClick, routine_id( "Tabs replacement"))
> </eucode>
{{{
    
> and prepare five groups of tabs to be opened.
> 
> Could a tree be so simple, both for you and the user?
> antonio
> 
> 
>  a programming solution is successful
> as it meets the user's effort in time.


Still, i really like your popup menu idea best.  Im going to have
to think about a simple way to implement this in the Launcher.

I dont even have 'that' many tab groups defined in my current LauchPad
that i use every day, and already im having to not like having to 
scroll!!  It's a pain because it takes too much time.  I put buttons
on both sides of my custom tab control now, and both have left and right
scroll, but it's still not that good.  I guess i gotta do the popup menu
idea of yours one way or another.
I put least used stuff on tabs to the far right (so as to not have to scroll
too often) but it's still not good without the menu.

Now there's one more question...
Where to allow the popup menu to be initialized from (graphically that is).
In other words, where does the user have to right click in order to
bring up the menu, which is solely for the tab buttons?

I already had plans for the right click on the tabs to do other things
like 'copy', paste button, etc.  with this idea we want to have a whole
list of tabs (which is good) but i wouldnt want to add them to the
'edit' menu...maybe right click somewhere else?  Above the buttons?
on the page face?  Ideas?


Take care,
Al

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