[Qt-creator] Multi-Tab editing and AutoHide

[Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa]

 Tirsdag 14 juli 2009 17:29:06 skrev 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.

I find that using the standard Ctrl+k combo to quickly find files will take me to 
the document I'm after _faster_ than if I were to Ctrl+Tab myself through the 
list of open files. Yay for Ctrl+k! :)

> 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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Christopher