A hide tab-bar option?

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi,

would it be possible to add a small checkbox in options which would disable the 
tab bar? Some of us are not using tabs so that bar is only a waste of valuable 
space :)

Thanks in advance,

karabaja4

Original issue reported on code.google.com by karaba...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 10:25

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Adding in a checkbox with that functionality would take some major re-coding 
efforts, as many core functions depend on the tab widget existing.  I tried 
adding an option this evening and got something working on a very basic level, 
but it introduced too many major bugs that I didn't think would be easy to 
track down.

One alternative is simply to hide the tab bar if you only have a single file 
open.  I can hide the tab bar with some style sheets, but I still need to 
figure out how to determine the height of the tab bar (would be different on 
different OSes and even different desktop themes).  I thought about using the 
tabBar() function on the QTabWidget object and getting it's height, but 
tabBar() is marked protected, so only friend/child classes can call it; I 
really don't want to have to sub-class QTabWidget just for this.  If I could 
get the coordinates of both the QTabWidget and QsciteEditor relative to the 
window frame, the difference of the two's Y-coordinate should be the height of 
the tab bar, but I haven't figured out of I can get those values either quite 
yet... (Ben, can you see any way of figuring out the height of the tab bar?)

I also saw your comment on the AUR package, however, I'd like to track down a 
new crash bug I discovered with QScintilla 2.4.6 before updating the AUR build 
script (since the QSciTE build script pulls the latest QScintilla and builds a 
static lib to link against).

Original comment by jpsut...@gmail.com on 1 Mar 2011 at 5:25

• Changed state: Started
• Added labels: Component-UI, OpSys-All, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ok, thanks for looking into it... Take your time ;)

P.S. I dunno if it's worth opening a new issue so I'll just ask here as a minor 
sidequestion... I saw in other QScintilla projects that it has a feature of 
highlighting the line we are currently working on (light blue on white 
background). Would it be possible to implement something like that in qscite?

Original comment by karaba...@gmail.com on 1 Mar 2011 at 8:52

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Open a new issue for the highlighting question.  I'll see if that can be done.

Original comment by jpsut...@gmail.com on 1 Mar 2011 at 1:11