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

• Posted by Antonio Alessi <a.admin at myway.it> Apr 19, 2006
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> So you're saying use a menu to replace the tabs?
> I kinda like having the tabs now though :)
> I would like having both tabs and the menu however.
> 
> Al
> 


(sorry for the last empty message)

Hi AL,

I was just repeating myself, since your example exactly fits my guess;
I wouldn't like to appear insistent however :)

Really, it seems we glimpse the same solution: my suggestion was to have 
both tabs and the menus, this way:

LP_1   LP_2   LP_3   LP_4   LP_5              -- these are 5 !menus, 
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-- on mouse touch, each opens the tab control with, let's say, 1 to 9 tabs.

Tab1 | Tab2 | Tab3 | Tab4 | Tab5 | Tab6 | Tab7 | Tab8 | Tab9 | 

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Inside every tab we can put how many buttons, or icons or LV you want.
ok? 
this should be quick to build as well as to use.

The fact is that when the tabs were born, it was rare to load 30-40 files
at a time, what to day seems rather a "habit"; they were not created for
dynamic scopes like loading etc., but rather for programs' options display: 
the today's tabs structure for tools like editors is insufficient by itself, 
neither the multiline nor vertical nor all around tabs positioning 
can resolve the problem, since the window doesn't change, and we cannot have
more tabs than text. Altough scrolling, the Tabs represent a static mode, 
like a mono-dimensional array, that we are trying to bring to 
multi-dimensional here.

That was my first idea; 
how much those !menu can satisfy the need I can't know until I'll work with.

antonio