[Qt-creator] Multi-Tab editing and AutoHide

[Daniel Price]

The best option then is to give the user the choice. Tabs look  
'modern' and work well for small numbers of editors but do not scale  
well.

I used to be a RealBasic fan and the change of that UI to an all- 
tabbed approach killed the experience for me.

On 14 Jul 2009, at 17:04, NOVAimages wrote:

> I think multiple windows are also not the best solution ... exactly
> because i need to reorganize them all the way.
> Also i need to click multiple times to get all windows into the
> foreground instead of just one.
>
> BUT Multiple Monitors IS an issue, that is true.
> I'm in the happy solution that all of my screens have the same  
> height so
> i can just make the qtcreator window larger and add addtional tilings
> and done.
> But if you have different screensizes it IS a problem for sure.
>
>
>
> Daniel Price schrieb:
>> I also want to say that tabs are not the best way to handle things. I
>> know several IDEs use them but that does mean they are optimum. I  
>> seem
>> to spend a lot of time in MSVC re-organizing and deleting tabs as
>> opposed to actually writing code! They stop working once you have  
>> more
>> than 5 tabs.
>>
>> The problem is that Creator, like MSVC, uses a single window. I've
>> found that CodeWarrior and XCode running in 'project' mode offer the
>> best solution - that is a single project window listing files with  
>> the
>> file contents themselves in separate editors. That way you are free  
>> to
>> organize the workspace as you please and it works well across  
>> multiple
>> monitors.
>>
>> This would be a major change to Creator of course...
>>
>> On 14 Jul 2009, at 16:29, Coda Highland wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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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