[Qt-creator] Multi-Tab editing and AutoHide

[Coda Highland]

I'll reply to this briefly, as this has been debated up one side and
down the other...

Creator essentially has tabs, but they're presented as a drop-down
menu instead of tabs. It's similar to what Xcode does, though slightly
better in my opinion.

Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab (Option instead of Ctrl on Mac) switches
between open documents.

Using tabs instead of this dropdown is less scalable; you can only fit
a few tabs horizontally across the width of the window before you run
out of space and either have to scroll, elide filenames, or both, and
don't forget it has to share space with the other widgets sharing that
bar along the top.

The dropdown allows the interface to remain consistent and elegant
even when you have many, many documents open.

/s/ Adam Higerd

On 7/14/09, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Multi Tab editing is now the de-facto standard way for developers to
> edit their code on numerous IDEs, and it would be really nice to have
> it in QtCreator too.
>
> AutoHide, is for the lower build (compiler messages) window to
> "auto-hide" as soon as the developer's mouse cursor leaves the said
> window as soon as the compilation finishes. We can implement this
> feature too for the project's files explorer, the goal being to offer
> the most of the screen area to the source code editing window.
>
> Any chance to get these into the next releases of QtCreator?
>
> Best regards,
> Ilyes Gouta.
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