OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 20, 2006
• 542 views

Antonio Alessi wrote:
> 
> Al Getz wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Antonio,
> > 
> > I had implemented the popup menu this morning and am now testing it
> > to see how it works with my everyday stuff.  So far, so good, but
> > when i stress tested it (created a lot of tabs) the menu got so
> > long it went from top of screen to bottom of screen, and then you
> > had to scroll on the bottom to get to the remaining items.
> > Total items before that happend was 40, so that's not too bad.
> > I think that's probably more than the number of tabs i'd want to
> > have on any single instance anyway.
> > 
> > The menu 'tabs' appear after a menu separater, with the edit
> > commands appearing just before that, but im going to move all
> > the edit commands into their own popup menu at the top of the
> > 'tabs' menu.
> > 
> > We also now have the idea of using a list box, and im also thinking
> > about a simple window with hot tracking buttons too, one button for
> > each tab...can be stacked vertically and horizontally like the 
> > LaunchPad itself has buttons.
> > 
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> 
> Hi AL,
> 
> I don't understand something: why do you put items into the popup menu?
> I thought it had to contain just the edit commands, leaving to the tabs
> to show their buttons. You could apply to every button the property to open
> the edit/popupmenu by the Ctrl-key down while clicking, and that's all.
> The same for the tab labels, and the upper !menus too, if you use them.
> 
> here is evening, so
> ciao!
> 
> antonio

Hi again,
I put the items into the popup menu because that's the original
idea i thought you presented, and i liked it that way.  I see
what you mean about using the Ctrl key down, but i would think
that would be better for the 'edit' menu because i want the navigation
to be as fast and simple and easy as possible -- hence every tab name
on the popup menu.  The editing will probably be much more infrequent
anyway -- change color, change target path, etc, only once probably,
while navigation will be a daily routine.

You really dont like this?

Actually the code wont be 'that' hard to change anyway the way it
is now, just have to create another menu (one or two lines) and
do a check for the ctl key down and bring up the other menu if 
it's down.


Take care,
Al

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