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Re: Multiline tabbar
Posted: 26 Apr 2018 11:16
by highend
XY-wise, this is not possible. But ofc you could write a simple .ahk app, that queries XY via a script sent by WM_COPYDATA e.g. every second and evaluates what XY reports back. Display that stuff in a little window and e.g. dock that to XY. Whenever you select one of the items, again, send a script to XY, selecting that tab.
I can help with the scripts to send if necessary...
E.g. for the polling stuff:
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::copydata %ownHwnd%, get("tabs", , "a") . "<:>" . get("tabs", , "i"), 2;
While ownHwnd is the hwnd of your own application
and in the Receive() function you split the received string and have all tabs
for the active and inactive panes...
And when you select a tab in your ahk window, just send
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::seltab <the index of that selected tab>;
back to XYplorer. Your indexes should start with 1 (because XY starts to count them from 1, 2, ...)
Re: Multiline tabbar
Posted: 27 Apr 2018 14:47
by CompSystems
At least two rows, please consider this idea.
Thank you
Re: Multiline tabbar
Posted: 28 Apr 2018 01:07
by jupe
I'd like to offer one more alternative for use in the meantime if anyone is interested, it only requires changing 2 entries in the Xyplorer.ini file to match the below entries and then when you right click on any blank white space in the background of your tree it will popup a menu of all your open tabs with full length captions.
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CEA_TreeRightClickOnWhite=6
CEA_TreeRightClickOnWhite_Script=button "tablist";
or if you don't like icons in the menu you can change just one line to match below to achieve the same:
for instructions on how to tweak:
https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=tweak
Tab bar
Posted: 01 Jul 2018 13:14
by jose
A tab bar is highly essential,add it.
One more thing : you say that user's wishes are taken seriously.
Re: Tab bar
Posted: 01 Jul 2018 16:51
by RalphM
Welcome to the club!
Nice first post to get yourself introduced - XY has a tab bar already and yes, wishes are usually taken as serious as their posters seem to be around here.
Re: Tab bar
Posted: 01 Jul 2018 16:57
by highend
He probably meant a multiline tab bar (spontaneous guess ofc)...
Re: Tab bar
Posted: 02 Jul 2018 05:06
by jose
yep,i really meant a multiline tab bar.
Re: Multiline tabbar
Posted: 02 Jul 2018 17:57
by Nighted
Who needs that many tabs?
Why not make 1000 tab bars? How about a bazillion? Yeah....tabs to infinity. Enough tabs 'til the sun explodes.
A veritable cornucopia of forgotten things you were going to do but then made another tab for future procrastination.
Multi-row tabs
Posted: 04 Feb 2019 06:55
by zzzzk
Hello,
Please add multi-row tabs with option to set tab width. Currently, if you have many tabs, you can't even read them.
Thank you
Re: Multiline tabbar
Posted: 10 Feb 2019 15:50
by admin
I always found multi-row tabs ugly and a cheap shot at the real problem: lack of organization. If one row is not enough, then two rows won't be either. It will make things only worse.
Usage tip: There is the Catalog which in fact can serve as an infinite vertical tab bar with fully readable captions. A dream.