Re: Speaking of NSTabView...

[thisguyisi]

Michael Hanni wrote:
> Aloha,
>
> --- Alex Perez <aperez@student.santarosa.edu> wrote:
> > What ever happened to the new NSTabView implementation that Michael 
> > Hanni was working on? Did this ever get completely finished? If not, 
> > would anyone be willing to finish the code Michael had so kindly 
> > written?
> >   
> Basically there are two major things left in my patch:
>
> 1.) Write some drawing code for each side of the tabs that scales nicely and
> looks good. I've tried to do this, but for whatever reason it hasn't worked.
>
> 2.) Implement the "more tabs than space" solution.
>
> The code already handles sizing and tabs in all four directions. Plus it makes
> some other small fixes here and there -- though that may be outweighed by new
> bugs introduced here and there. ;-)
>
> If someone is interested in following up on this please feel free to email me.
> Otherwise, in mid-December I'll be free once again to do some hacking...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
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Hello Michael,

I don't know how far you've looked into the "more tabs than space"
problem, but one possible model is Mozilla Firebird, with the
Tabbrowser Extension loaded. From a visual standpoint, anyway. When
there are more tabs than will fit on screen, a scrollbar pops up
beneath the row of tabs, and the view scales to make room for the new
scrollbar. 

This visual behavior fits in with GNUstep as it follows the same
behavior that Preferences.app does when there are more icons than will
fit in the window; a scrollbar appears below the icons to allow you to
access the icons outside the current view. The only difference, of
course, is this deals with an array of tabs, rather than an array of
icons.

I'm suggesting this as a solution, because when the scrollbar first
popped up under the row of tabs while browsing with Mozilla Firebird, I
thought, "Hey... How NeXT-ish. Cool!"

My two cents,
-Lee