The best things to do IMHO is the way WinXP handles it in task bar. An image showing it in action is attached. Up and down arrow buttons. When you click on down arrow you see the second row. TextPad offers a left/right arrow button but it's hard to use, you need to press right arrow button repeatedly to get to the document you want! Another good idea for the tabs is taken from Opera browser: you have several tabs open, tab1 has focus, you go to tab2, if you single-click on tab2, tab1 comes up, or in other words in recently used order, so you can very easily navigate in open tabs.
Ara. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Christian Sell > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Eap-list] Annoying editor tabs 'feature' > > >In Early Access version 521 - An annoying feature has appeared on the > tabs > >for open editors. If there is more than one row of tabs and a tab at the > >back is clicked, it isn't brought to the front. Also opening new editors > >places the new tab next to the tab currently in focus, rather than after > the > >last tab to the front-right. > > > >Is this a 'Feature' or a bug? > > > AFAIK its a feature. It was changed from the default swing tab behavior > because some users (and IDEA developers I assume) agreed that it was > irritating. I tended to agree at that time, but now that I see the > results, I must say that I agree with you. The swing designers probably > went through the same thought/experience process before deciding as they > did. > > I have seen apps that only allow one row of tabs, and provide some sort of > horizontal scroll function to allow for more tabs than fit on the page. > Maybe there is no ideal solution. > > Christian > > P.S.: what I do like is the new (?) CVS diff viewer. Nice. > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
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