More flexible code tabs in the IDE

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Pjmonty

• October 16, 2011 05:37

I love the tabs for code files in the IDE.  However, the implementation is pretty rigid. As you add files, the tabs keep getting smaller and smaller, with the file name shortened with ellipsis.  I currently have 23 tabs and they are all unreadable because each only shows the first 3 or 4 letters followed by ellipsis.  Also, the order of the tabs is dictated by the order they were opened.  You can't move them to group them more logically.

Suggestions -

1 - Allow the user to move tabs.

2 - Allow tabs to be displayed vertically and let the user adjust the width of the tabs on the fly in the IDE.  This will prevent the tabs from becoming unreadbale at the expense of some horizontal real estate.

3 - When the user mouses over the tabs, have an tooltip appear (without a delay) that shows just the unshortened names of the source files without the path.  This would make it a lot easier to find the tab you want when they are really tiny.  You currently have a tooltip, but it takes a few seconds for it to appear, and it shows the entire path.  That's a lot of reading when all I really want is the file name. 

4 - Allow option to always have tabs show full file name.  since this would result is much larger tabs, when they no longer all fit on in the window, allow for mouse wheel scrolling to slide the list of available tabs back and forth.

5 - Allow an option to always place header files tabs next to matching source file tabs when both are opened.

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  Paul Curtis

  • October 17, 2011 22:34

  A whole new implementation of this is in the labs.  You'll need to wait and see what we've come up with...

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  Pjmonty

  • October 26, 2011 04:06

  Arrgh.  Extremely glad to hear you've got a new implementation, but I'm dying out here using the current implementation.  Is this something that's going to have to wait for a 3.0 release, or might it be released on an IDE update?

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  Paul Curtis

  • October 26, 2011 09:29

  It won't be in 3.x, it'll be in 2.x.

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  selene

  • October 26, 2011 10:29

  Also, it would be nice to be able to close a tab by double-clicking it rather than using the small X, which can become very annoying if clicked by mistake when simply trying to select a file (it happened to me countless times).

  Thanx

  Joe

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  Paul Curtis

  • October 26, 2011 13:13

  I think that double-click to close is not a good UI experience.  Sure, double-click on a Windows icon for close, but I don't do that.  I think it could lead to frustration.

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  Paul Curtis

  • October 26, 2011 13:13

  Ok, perhaps a configurable option...

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  Mark Norton

  • August 10, 2012 02:15

  What happened to the ability to move tabs and sort their order.  This seemed to have been removed but was something I used.  Also the sorting in the drop down lists files with caps first.  I just realized this.  I would rather the sort be case insensitive.

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  Paul Curtis

  • August 10, 2012 09:43

  Whatever I do it will upset somebody.  Having everything completely configurable is also undesirable because there will be so many configuration options.  Moving tabs might be possible if I put the work into it.  As for sort order, I can do something about that.

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