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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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).
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.
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').-
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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 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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But then it looks like a hovered tab.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
No other idea currently...
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