OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 18, 2006
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Antonio Alessi wrote:
> 
> 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

Hi Antonio,

Oh ok i see what you mean now.  Yes, limited use would probably
work out very well.
Also, my past version of LaunchPad did not have tabs at all, just
buttons, so there was only one page to work with per instance.
What i did then was have one LaunchPad to open up other Launchpads like:

LP 1
  Web
  EuphoriaProjects
  Financial

LP 2 would then be for "Web"
LP 3 would be for EuProjects
LP 4 would be for Financial stuff

So i used LP to group other LP's.

This can be still used, while making the 'main' LP smaller,
with each tab for a major catagory and buttons for minor groups.

What do you think about this idea?



Take care,
Al

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