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So...as someone who has never had more than about 5-6 tabs open, can you give me some clues as to why one needs to have so many tabs active at one time? Given the numerous ways that XY lets you get to another location quickly, such as Catalog, and the fact that you can only have one tab currently active, I'm just not catching on...ok, so I'm likely not that aquainted with mapped network environments in XY, and looking for some background to better understand your issue.Straminator wrote:Well now I'm bummed, I use a bunch of mapped network drives and there's just too many tabs to put on one line (even with the flexible width feature). I tried to iconize but it's just not working for me (they all look the same, even with custom icons it would be too much).
How many tabs are you using?Straminator wrote:I use a bunch of mapped network drives and there's just too many tabs to put on one line (even with the flexible width feature). I tried to iconize but it's just not working for me (they all look the same, even with custom icons it would be too much).
I have a number of network drives, and major folders under them, and I use the Catalog. I have a catalog section set up for the various folders and I use one tab, clicking on the catalog entry I want to switch it between folders. If I want a second tab (for drag & drop, or whatever) I shift-click the catalog entry.Straminator wrote:Well now I'm bummed, I use a bunch of mapped network drives and there's just too many tabs to put on one line (even with the flexible width feature).
You could use parallel instances of XYplorer, one for each project, and thus outsource the stacking to the task bar...Straminator wrote:In a perfect world I would use between 20 - 30 tabs, all with flexible widths. I have many projects going at the same time, each project has 4 or 5 locations which utilize a "locked home zone" tab. If I could color code the tabs as well it would help to manage 20 or 30 at the same time.
I tried using the catalog feature but after creating many catalog links I find that it eats into the size of my folder tree in the left pane.
For my scenario, if I could create multiple home tabs (1 per project) and then cascade a number of tabs (~5) under the home tab, that would work as well. But I'm pretty sure that would be a lot more effort for the developer.
Currently not. If a tab would be only a pointer to a location then it would be relatively easy to implement, but a tab is more than that and exporting/importing tabs would need a new file format (*.tabset) plus a management interface; the whole would be similar to the handling of search templates.j_c_hallgren wrote:Is there a way that using catalog and scripting that one could swap in/out a set of tabs as a group to help solve this issue?
Okay, I now did a quick & dirty implementation of a tabset switcher using Catalog Categories as storage containers. I had this on some of my lists since long and it can be refined in many nice ways later... (adding tab names, visual filters, searches) .. but the basic job of switching tabsets is already working nicely.admin wrote:Currently not. If a tab would be only a pointer to a location then it would be relatively easy to implement, but a tab is more than that and exporting/importing tabs would need a new file format (*.tabset) plus a management interface; the whole would be similar to the handling of search templates.j_c_hallgren wrote:Is there a way that using catalog and scripting that one could swap in/out a set of tabs as a group to help solve this issue?
Welcome back again! So did I read you correctly that you previously had v7.90? If so, then...you have a LOT of catching up to do! And part of that (which relates to your query) is Dual-Pane as of v8.00!Straminator wrote:It's me again. I just upgraded to the latest XYplorer v8.70 and I lost some of my precious tab space. It seems the folder list now cuts into the space where I used to have tabs, whereas the tab row used to span the entire width of the XYplorer window (v7.90). I'm guessing somebody else requested XYplorer maximize the folder list size and the tab row width suffered. Either that or perhaps the author is preparing to accommodate the stackable tabs I requested a while back.
And if you're familiar with tweaks you can easily change back to the pre-8.00 behavior:j_c_hallgren wrote:Welcome back again! So did I read you correctly that you previously had v7.90? If so, then...you have a LOT of catching up to do! And part of that (which relates to your query) is Dual-Pane as of v8.00!Straminator wrote:It's me again. I just upgraded to the latest XYplorer v8.70 and I lost some of my precious tab space. It seems the folder list now cuts into the space where I used to have tabs, whereas the tab row used to span the entire width of the XYplorer window (v7.90). I'm guessing somebody else requested XYplorer maximize the folder list size and the tab row width suffered. Either that or perhaps the author is preparing to accommodate the stackable tabs I requested a while back.
Implementing that caused some changes to the layout and tab row width was part of that...so here's one thread from a while back that seems similar to your issue:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3702
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+ Added tweak to layout the top bars as it was possible before Dual
Pane was introduced. Note that this layout is only applied in
Single Pane Mode. However, you can toggle panes while using the SP
layout, so can enjoy advantages of both worlds.
[General]
LayoutSP=0
Possible values:
0 = Same as Dual Pane (= tweak is OFF)
1 = [Address Bar] [Toolbar & Tabs]
2 = [Address Bar] [Tabs & Toolbar]
3 = [Toolbar & Address Bar] [Tabs]
4 = [Address Bar & Toolbar] [Tabs]