Page Tabs (in general)

[djrikki]

Hi Andreas,

Just wanted to make sure I haven't missed anything so far in my bug and wish-list reporting. Take a look at the following screenshot in a fresh browser tab.

http://www.lakemarketingandevents.co.uk ... tor000.png

Now here I am particularly focusing on what MUI Royale needs in order to allow for tabbed documents. What is missing at present in v1.0.

* Being able to insert/delete new page groups on the fly ( MIGHT HAVE REQUESTED )
* Being able to change (rename) the title of a page group ( BELIEVE I HAVE REPORTED THIS ONE ALREADY )

So the short question is - has this already been done and ready in v1.1?

[airsoftsoftwair]

* Being able to insert/delete new page groups on the fly ( MIGHT HAVE REQUESTED )

This feature requires dynamic creation/deletion of MUI objects on the fly which would require some major changes in MUI Royale
so it's not likely for 1.1.

* Being able to change (rename) the title of a page group ( BELIEVE I HAVE REPORTED THIS ONE ALREADY )

AFAICS, this is not possible with MUI. Even with MUI 4.0 on MorphOS the corresponding MUI attribute is still defined as:

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#define MUIA_Register_Titles                0x804297ec /* V7  i.g STRPTR *          */

I.e. there is no SET applicability which would be necessary to change this on the fly. But maybe there is some tricky way around this.

[djrikki]

Well thats a bummer on both counts the later even more so.

[airsoftsoftwair]

I've just forwarded this question to one of the MUI developers because it seems strange to me that these titles shouldn't be changeable after creation. Let's see what the answer is.

[airsoftsoftwair]

Ok, so it definitely isn't possible with MUI 3.8 and 3.9. Only MUI 4.0 supports this.

[evil]

@djrikki

A possible solution can be seen in the Texteditor "NoWinEd".
It does not use Pages for different textes.
Instead it has a row of buttons, One for each text. If you click a buttom, the Editor-window will be actualised with the new Text.

But It is (in my solution) a bit complicated to just show as many Buttons, as you have textfiles open.
Normally you would make the button bar like this:
<hgroup>
<button/><button/><button/>...
</hgroup>

To just show the buttons you have opened textfiles for, you might try this:

<hgroup>
<hgroup><rectangle/><button/></hgroup>
<hgroup><rectangle/><button/></hgroup>
<hgroup><rectangle/><button/></hgroup>
.
.
.
</hgroup>


All rectangles and buttons get ids.
At initialisation, all rectangles will be shown, and all buttons will be hidden.

So you might for example Create about 100 of these "rectangle-button" groups.
And always, when the user opens/creates a new textfile, the button will be shown and its rectangle will be hidden.
On the other hand, when the user closes a textfile, Its button will be hidden and the (empty) rectangle will be shown.
Button.Label has an applicability of SG.
I hope, you understand, what I mean!

Best regards,
George

[djrikki]

I do know what you mean George however I'd rather wait for a proper implementation then fudge something together.

[djrikki]

@Andreas, wow MUI 4 released on Christmas Eve, I hope you can bring this to MUI Royale in your next release.

[djrikki]

Note to self, waiting on this one for TextEdit, e.g. tabbed document browsing.

[airsoftsoftwair]

Will be possible once we have support for dynamic object creation in MUI Royale.