[Qt-creator] Multi-Tab editing and AutoHide

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi,

You'd need a 24" monitor or a multi-screen setup in order to have an
editor opened per source code file, something that can be afforded by
most people. Tabs consume less screen estate than an extra window with
a combo box listing the opened documents, let you see directly how
many of them are there and with keyboard shortcuts like alt+tab,
shift+alt+tab, become a lot user-friendly. Judging from my personal
experience, it's true though that they don't scale... But they're
cool, you know... :)

Guys, what about the second feature? Auto-Hide for the build window
and project explorer?

Thank you, Trolltech, for QtCreator! You guys rock!

Regards,
Ilyes Gouta.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Daniel Price<deepblue842 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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