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WebDext
I moved the tabs in processing ide...
Jun 7th, 2009, 11:24pm  
I recently was getting aggro over the limited number of tabs that can be visible but I still don't want to use a huge IDE like eclipse so I took the time today to get processing source, build it and move the tabs over to the left. It could probably use a little bit more tweaking but it works great for me now. Anyways I thought I'd share what it looks like at least:

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The amount of space between the code area and the tabs is customizable since I used a splitter.

Let me know if you want to see the code, or if I can commit my changes - I've never contributed to an open source project before so I don't know how that works but I'm assuming some form of code review is in order.

Also, it probably would be pretty easy for me to code in some options so that you can keep it on top if you want, I just thought the screen real estate was better used on the left.

[edit] Line numbers were never in I must have been thinking of notepad++ or something.


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seltar
Re: I moved the tabs in processing ide...
Reply #1 - Jun 8th, 2009, 1:50am  
Nice.. It is really annoying when you have to use the drop-down to get the other tabs outside the view. So I think this is a great alternative.. Another one would be if the tabs at the top, would wrap.. so get several rows of tabs. That would look a lot better imo.

But great job. Hope it gets added to the IDE with options for choosing where to have it.

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Re: I moved the tabs in processing ide...
Reply #2 - Jun 8th, 2009, 10:42am  
seltar wrote on Jun 8th, 2009, 1:50am:
Nice.. It is really annoying when you have to use the drop-down to get the other tabs outside the view. So I think this is a great alternative.. Another one would be if the tabs at the top, would wrap.. so get several rows of tabs. That would look a lot better imo.

But great job. Hope it gets added to the IDE with options for choosing where to have it.

seltar


Awesome thanks for the feedback, maybe if a bunch of people are on board they'll want the feature =)

I added the option into preferences this morning so now you can have it either way:

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Re: I moved the tabs in processing ide...
Reply #3 - Oct 2nd, 2009, 12:34pm  
wow. i just googled this problem since it looks like i might end up with it.

how can i get this version? lol
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Re: I moved the tabs in processing ide...
Reply #4 - Oct 2nd, 2009, 12:41pm  
yeah, that would be really useful. something else i would love to be added it the feature of changing the order of the tabs the way i want. Not only in alphabetic order
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