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totalspectrum / flexprop

Simple GUI for Propeller development (both P1 and P2)
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flexprop editor tab-titles get very short with many open files, can't tell which file I'm editing #33

Closed dgately closed 3 years ago

dgately commented 3 years ago

When a large number (8, 10, 12, etc...?) of files are open for editing, the tabs get very small horizontally and the filenames get cut-down and it is difficult to know which actual file you are editing as you copy & rename files to add variant filenames (ex: "jm_i2c_driver" gets cloned to: "jm_i2c_driver_MOD"). I often quickly clone code from others (mostly JonnyMac :-) and add my initials or "MOD" to the filename. On occasion, I've started editing and realized I was editing the original file only after compiling/saving. Some way of know which actual file you are about to edit, would help with this problem.

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Could tooltips containing the filename be added? Then, as you move the cursor over a TAB, the full filename of the file is briefly displayed.

I've seen that there are ways to add help text to TABs, but I'm unsure how to implement. Here's a stackoverflow posting which might provide some ideas about tab help text: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52352475/display-tooltip-when-hovering-on-a-tab

totalspectrum commented 3 years ago

I've added some tool tips for the tabs. This is quite a hack, so it's not as smooth as I would like; it may take a few tries to get the tooltip to come up.

totalspectrum commented 3 years ago

I think this is working OK in 5.0.5.