[bt-devel] Feature-a-thon - Tabs Within Windows

[Gary Holmlund]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Gary Holmlund wrote:
>   
>> Windows and Tabbed Views - I had proposed tabbed windows as show here:
>> http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/New_Window_Arrangement_Modes
>> Eeli wanted to have a more general discussion of Windows before this was
>> done.
>>     
>
> Added some thoughts:
> http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/BibleTime1Refactoring#Window_system
>
>   Yours,
> 	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
> 	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
>   
While the top level tabbed windows I originally proposed would be easy 
to do, I feel that the other choice you made or having tabs within 
windows is a very good idea. I don't believe both should be done as we 
would have tabbed windows with tabs inside of them. I don't think that 
would look right.

I prototyped tabs within windows by taking the Qt demo program that is a 
mdi program with QTextEdit widgets for its windows. I used a subclass of 
QTabWidget as the windows and put the QTextEdit on each tab. Look at the 
second graphic here:

http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/New_Window_Arrangement_Modes

With this program I was able to drag any tab to a new location in either 
the same window or a different windows with the text editor moving with 
it. Perhaps putting the tabs into window is the easy part. We also need 
to have a good ui for opening tabs, the save/restore session code needs 
to change,  we will need the mdi style toolbar, etc.

We will need quite a bit of discussion before this feature could be 
implemented. It is definitely beyond the current release. I look forward 
to discussing it further.

Gary