OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by Antonio Alessi <a.admin at myway.it> Apr 18, 2006
• 512 views

Al Getz wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> 

Well, it is not so simple what I have done with my popup menu; for that
it would take long time to extrapolate it from the procedure, since it was 
created for there. I believe also it is a bit heavy for the Launchpad;
I did not understand your request was oriented to this project of yours,
but to me it does not seem so suitable in that case. Speaking of tabs, 
I focused loaded files, documents and programs, not buttons. The problem
about these buttons is to launch more applications at a time, but they
must be visible, immediate and far from to be searched into a labyrinth.
I'm not sure we are talking of the same things ;o).. 
however there is on my keyboard a menu shortcut key that I have used for 
the popup menu; but you must choose some special Key likewise.