Tab folders expanding automatically

[Techworks]

peterH, I rhink your've missed the point.

Whats neeeded is for the previous tree view that was on the tab when you left it to be automatically restored when you go back to it. nothing to save and load, it just does it automatically so each tabs tree view is unique.

[admin]

Yes, sure. A tree is just a couple of bytes. You can already create any (mini) tree you like using the loadtree scripting command.

We are going circles...

No, sentence #3 was just an illustration of sentence #2 which was an affirmation of sentence #1. My message was: "Yes, sure."

[PeterH]

Yes, sure. A tree is just a couple of bytes. You can already create any (mini) tree you like using the loadtree scripting command.

We are going circles...

No, sentence #3 was just an illustration of sentence #2 which was an affirmation of sentence #1. My message was: "Yes, sure."

Sorry - you are right. I ignored the meaning of "Yes, sure.".
And also of "You can already create..." - as a description, what's possible now. I thought you would describe this as a solution...

@Techworks: my example was for Dons description, saying "You can already create any (mini) tree you like using the loadtree scripting command." This seems to say "you can load a tree fitting for a tab"? And if you load it you must have saved it before...
But right: what we are talking about (and want) is "to make this automatic by just selecting a tab", by (XY-internal) remembering a tree-layout per tab. I hope we can agree on this?

[Techworks]

PeterH

Yep I agree

"what we are talking about (and want) is "to make this automatic by just selecting a tab", by (XY-internal) remembering a tree-layout per tab. "

[ConfusedNerd]

I installed XYplorer (Jan 2024) and after playing with the program for a few hours I found a lot of features that I liked. The only feature that I couldn't find that i really wanted was the ability to have each tab have its own view of my files. Whenever I open/close a folder in one tab, all other tabs would show the changes, which for me makes having tabs worthless. it would be like opening up a Chrome web browser and every time you looked at content from one tab, all other tabs would show the same content. For me the pure and simple logic of having a tab is to show a unique view of the universe.

After doing several google searches i found a partial solution, and so I thought that I would share what I found on each of the following threads were others are looking for the same or similar solution that I am looking for.

Here are the threads that i found talking about each tab having its own view of my files.
2005 - Treeview & tabs
2010 - Tab folders expanding automatically
2012 - tree view doesnt stay constant for each tab
2014 - Remember tree view on a per-pane basis
2019 - Show/Reveal/Expand Selected List Folder in Tree?

In the following thread
2019 - Auto reset tree
i found a partial answer for me in the following solution.

From the menu select
Tools | Configuration | General | Tree and List | Tree | Auto-optimize tree

Check the box next to "Auto-optimize tree"

press the "Ok" button.

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This helps a little bit. Each tab can now have its own view of my files. The downside is that all folders are auto closed except for the one folder which I am looking at which is really frustrating as then it makes it difficult to look at files from multiple folders with in a tab.

If someone else has found a way to have each tab have its own view of my files, please let me know.

[admin]

So you want each tab to remember its own tree. That's not the way XYplorer is designed. However, you can do it using Custom Event Actions and scripting. But it's a bit of work.