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meganite:
I tried to use the split view and it only split it for that one file, so I could only see two panes of that single file, rather than both files on the screen. I think it would be handy, and I know Notepad++ does this, if you can split different files into two separate columns. Basically what it does is moves the tab for one file into the new column, while leaving the other tabs in the previous column. If there's any way to do this using the current release, please let me know. Seeing two files at once helps my workflow immensely.

Thanks, and y'all are doing a great job!
--Megan
P.S. I am using the latest release of the windows version, not the one from SVN.
Also, I tried posting this in the feature request tracker page, but it gave me an error that only an admin was allowed to change it or something. So I'm posting it here, I hope that's okay.

Ceniza:
That's how it works right now. What you are asking for has been requested many times, and we are aware it would be lovely. Be sure if it were that easy, we would have done it by now.

I even think that request is already in BerliOS, but don't expect it anytime soon.

Another user (dmoore) was working on something that achieved that (it was actually to detach editor windows), but his patch caused many crashes. It was only tested by a few. Instead of that, we considered moving from wxFlatNoteBook to the one provided by wxAUI, but now I don't remember the reason it wasn't done.

meganite:
Well that's a bummer. At least I know it's been considered =) Thanks for your reply!

DrewBoo:

--- Quote from: Ceniza on March 13, 2008, 05:56:50 pm ---That's how it works right now. What you are asking for has been requested many times, and we are aware it would be lovely. Be sure if it were that easy, we would have done it by now.

I even think that request is already in BerliOS, but don't expect it anytime soon.

Another user (dmoore) was working on something that achieved that (it was actually to detach editor windows), but his patch caused many crashes. It was only tested by a few. Instead of that, we considered moving from wxFlatNoteBook to the one provided by wxAUI, but now I don't remember the reason it wasn't done.

--- End quote ---

Hm...perhaps dmoore's work was too ambitious.  Although I like the sound of what he tried.

Would the Powers That Be here humor another attempt at a patch?

At least we're on the same page that it would be nice.   :)

rjmyst3:

--- Quote from: Ceniza on March 13, 2008, 05:56:50 pm ---Instead of that, we considered moving from wxFlatNoteBook to the one provided by wxAUI, but now I don't remember the reason it wasn't done.

--- End quote ---

It is very easy to replace wxFlatNotebook with wxAUINotebook. I just did it with the 4 notebooks in a branch of wxFormBuilder. The APIs are very similar, and once you are done, the splitting "just works". It works very well.

I think the biggest problem with wxAUINotebook is that people expect it to work with an external wxAUIManager and allow tearing off the tabs and docking into other wxAUI panes. Or they expect it to save its layout with SavePerspective(), or the like. It does not do either of those things.

wxAUINotebook is a stand-alone notebook that allows splitting the notebook's window into multiple panes, and dragging tabs around that notebook, or optionally to other notebooks, and it works great. Expect only that, which IMHO would be a very nice feature for C::B, and you won't be disappointed.

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