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Closing Tabs

Started by Bill-Bo, June 02, 2013, 12:48:10 PM

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Bill-Bo

June 02, 2013, 12:48:10 PM Last Edit: June 02, 2013, 01:21:31 PM by Bill-Bo
LarryMc,

For the IDE, could you a clickable "x" in the tabs so
that you can click on it to close a file. Otherwise,
you have to go to the "File" menu and click "Close".
If you have 10 tabs and want to close 5, that's
kind-of-a pain.

You're doing great.

Bill

P.S. Also Ctrl-Tab to change between tabs. Plus,
F3 to repeat finds.

LarryMc

Quote from: Bill-Bo on June 02, 2013, 12:48:10 PM
For the IDE, could you a clickable "x" in the tabs so
that you can click on it to close a file. Otherwise,
you have to go to the "File" menu and click "Close".
If you have 10 tabs and want to close 5, that's
kind-of-a pain.
You're right.. Having to go to the File/Close menu would be a pain IF that was what you had to do.
When you first start the IDE and open your 1st file, the file, by default opens up in maximized mode in the MDI client area.  That pushes the file's sysmenu to the same line as the IDE's menu but down on the right end. It will show a minimize, restore and close button. So, to close any file all you have to do is click the tab(to select the file) and then click the close button.  If you click the restore button then the sysmenu will move from the main menu line back down into the file's own window caption bar which will now be visible for each open file.
Pretty much stand operation for MDI windows.
Also, you can go to the Windows menu on the IDE's main menu and close all open files with one click.

Quote from: Bill-Bo on June 02, 2013, 12:48:10 PM
P.S. Also Ctrl-Tab to change between tabs.
Just curious, why would you want to move to the next tab to the right using two fingers when all you have to do is just click it's tab?
And if I did add that then is the next suggestion that I add Ctrl-Shft-Tab to move to the left?

Quote from: Bill-Bo on June 02, 2013, 12:48:10 PM
Plus,
F3 to repeat finds.
F3 works fine for me. so does F2 to go backwards and Shift F3 and Shift F2 to find the last and first You're going to have to give me the details of exactly what you are doing when it doesn't work.

In general, there are a lot of things that are different in the new IDE.  I think it would be worth the time to read the first portions of the help file.

Thanks for the comments/suggestions.
LarryMc
Larry McCaughn :)
Author of IWB+, Custom Button Designer library, Custom Chart Designer library, Snippet Manager, IWGrid control library, LM_Image control library

Bill-Bo

LarryMc,

Thanks a lot. Got the closing of tabs worked out using
your directions.

About the using two fingers, I use a few programs that have
an x in the tab to close it. But, you can use Ctrl-Tab to
tab through them. I do this because sometimes if I use the
mouse I'll miss and click the x; closing the tab instead of
selecting. Does that make sense? I know, watch your clicking.

F3, yes it works after you go to the file menu and select Find.
Click 'Find First' and exit the Find dialog. Then F3 will find the
next one. But, what I mean is the ability to let's say highlight
a variable name and press F3 to find other occurencies. I know
this program isn't UltraEdit, but has that feature. Thought it
would be nice here. And with your programming capabilities,
you would be able to do it in no time. Oh well.

Thanks

Bill

LarryMc

Quote from: Bill-Bo on June 02, 2013, 08:44:31 PM
About the using two fingers, I use a few programs that have
an x in the tab to close it. But, you can use Ctrl-Tab to
tab through them. I do this because sometimes if I use the
mouse I'll miss and click the x; closing the tab instead of
selecting. Does that make sense? I know, watch your clicking.
I'm pretty sure the x in the tab thing isn't going to happen

Quote from: Bill-Bo on June 02, 2013, 08:44:31 PM
F3, yes it works after you go to the file menu and select Find.
Click 'Find First' and exit the Find dialog. Then F3 will find the
next one. But, what I mean is the ability to let's say highlight
a variable name and press F3 to find other occurencies.
With the additional info you provided this is something I'll look into since I allow you to highlight a keyword and hit F1 to search the help files.
This one you will get.


By the way, you said "F3, yes it works after you go to the file menu and select Find.
Click 'Find First' and exit the Find dialog. Then F3 will find the
next one
."  You can also do Ctrl-F to open the Find dialog and you can also right click in an editor window and select Find to open the Find dialog. 
LarryMc
Larry McCaughn :)
Author of IWB+, Custom Button Designer library, Custom Chart Designer library, Snippet Manager, IWGrid control library, LM_Image control library

Bill-Bo

LarryMc,

At least I got one. Thanks.

I haven't tried all the new features, but I'm using the
new version to convert my IBasic Distance and Bearing
program. I's the one I had mention in a different post
as being CBasic (by mistake) and wonder why I had
to convert. I'm converting a section at a time, then
I'll piece it together. So far, so good.

Thanks for your great work.

Bill