Rename Locked Tab with Selection Filter

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phatmankerr
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Rename Locked Tab with Selection Filter

Post by phatmankerr »

Was playing with some of the ideas from Jacky's Wiki (Thanks Jacky !).

And set up a couple of locked tabs with Visual Filters (nice !) but when I tried to rename the tab it failed - It's only a problem because some of the filters are quite long.

E.g. I want to have a 'C: Docs' Tab that has a filter for document types only. But all I can see on the tab is a truncated list of the filters applied.

Basically can a tab rename be set to override the visual filter text on the tab but obviously leave the filter intact?

Thanks

Andy

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Post by Gandolf »

Ouch!!

That's a nasty one. I've just tried a very long filter and all I can see on the tab is the filter information.

An idea for long filters (not my own, pinched from another file manager).

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:    Label the entire filespec.  Precede the colon with the desired
           label, to make it easy to recognize a long or complex combination
           of filespecs in the small filespec box.  (This is just a visual
           clue, and has no effect on the filespec itself).

           Example:  "Pics: *.GIF,*.JPG,*.BMP" will display "Pics:" as the
                     first part of the filespec in the filespec box.  This
                     can also help when retrieving a filespec from history.
                     (See section 3.6 'History Lists').
The idea of a label displayed on the tab would avoid very long filter lists and, assuming the name of the label is chosen sensibly, it will be obvious what the filter is.

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Post by jacky »

hmm yeah, I'd suggest aswell to not put the VF when a tab has a title, but put that title in the Mark Color to indicate it has a VF (since VF are using that color when added)
But let the full VF added after the title on the tooltip, so one can know what VF is activated if needed ;)
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jacky wrote:hmm yeah, I'd suggest aswell to not put the VF when a tab has a title, but put that title in the Mark Color to indicate it has a VF (since VF are using that color when added)
But let the full VF added after the title on the tooltip, so one can know what VF is activated if needed ;)
But then it looks like a hovered tab.
No other idea currently... :|

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