Re: Separation into dock widgets

[Michael Goffioul]

IIRC John was experimenting with docking widget to allow any widget layout.
This is imo a better approach than playing with shirtcuts, as I think being able
to have the editor and the terminal windows side-by-side is a must. Did that
get anywhere?

Michael.


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Jacob Dawid
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> from several octave I heard they usually have an editor window open side by
> side to a terminal window and that the current separation in tabs is
> preventing them to do it. I tried to change the separation so that it
> becomes possible, but DockWidgets are not intended by design what they
> should do in this case, they rather act as toolbars around the central
> widget (it is possible to "hack" it by assigning an empty central widget and
> not allowing them to overlap, but that's is not working well for all
> situations). The other approach to solve this is to generate an MDI
> interface, but that is rather ugly, because the user interface can become
> very messy when putting everything into a subwindow, plus it is not
> guaranteed that the subwindows dock and align nicely.
>
> The solution then was to install an event filter that catches all key events
> from underlying widgets in the tab view. If the user holds Ctrl, all tabs
> get numbers assigned (1-4), so the user can switch very fast via pressing
> any of the number keys. For example, in order to copy a command from the
> documentation, you do the following steps:
>
> 1.) Mark the text you want to copy with the mouse, this can be text from the
> web or from the editor:
> http://www.pic-upload.de/view-9769237/cp1.png.html
>
> 2.) You press Ctrl to copy, simultaneously the tabs get numbers assigned:
> http://www.pic-upload.de/view-9769239/cp2.png.html
>
> 3.) You hold Ctrl, then you do "c 1 v" - copying, switching to 1 which is
> the terminal and pasting - and you have copied the text into the terminal:
> http://www.pic-upload.de/view-9769240/cp3.png.html
>
> Actually, it does not work yet with the browser as shown, since I found out
> that I have not yet implemented the copy-to-clipboard shortcut for the
> browser, I had to do a click on the right mouse button and copy. But it
> already works for the editor.
>
> Jacob
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