[Lazarus] IDE editor's NoteBook component problems

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Martin wrote:

> Vincent Snijders wrote:
>> Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> What could be a solution so we can position the tabs in the editor. With 
>>> wide screen monitors, it will be much more beneficial to have the tabs on 
>>> the right edge compared to the default top. No scroll (or much less 
>>> scrolling) of tabs will occur.
>> 
>> What does this have to do with wide screen monitors?
>
> With all tabs in one line, and the fact that the tabs/text is raotated by 90 
> degree, indeed it gets worse if tabs are on the side.
> But yes the take one less line on top, and you can see one more line of 
> source code......
>
> If you have multipline tabs, then on a widescreen you can stack as many as 
> you want on the side.
>
> Or maybe he was hoping that tabs on the side would not be rotated, but shown 
> like items in a listbox.
> (like "tree style tab" extension in firefox)
>
> Maybe he should have a look at http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13930 
> that may help him.
>
>
> Overall it seems there are a lot of people holding a great amount of iles 
> open at the same time (sometimes me too).

If you right-click the tabs, you get a list of available tabs and you can
switch to the tab you want by selecting it. What more do you need ?
If I have 100 open files, no matter what the visual control, I will need to
switch.

Michael.