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User forums => Using Code::Blocks => Topic started by: Balazs on May 18, 2007, 09:47:44 pm
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I see that most dialogs' tab-bars have been replaced with combo boxes. It took us quite a while to figure out this new interface, and it is also quite cumbersome to use.
Is there a possibility to revert to the old tab-bar interface?
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Greets,
B.
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You know what? I also preferred the old version using tabs.
Why don't you create a poll instead? That'd be a good idea to really know what the community thinks about that.
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Same goes for me.
Jan
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I agree as well. I find the current system hard to see where I am actually am. Please bring back the tabs. They look a lot more professional. Or maybe a setting?
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I, too, prefer the tab layout.
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I, too, prefer the tab layout.
But, I assumed the change was to support the XML-based compiler framework.
Tim S
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Same here, since the switch i still find it hard to see, and it requires one more click than tabs (you must click on the combobox and select the dialog, while with tabs you only have to select the dialog).
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Good, I'm not the only one...
Bring back the tabs!
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Agreed. I miss the tabs.
Philipe
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I too preferred the tabs.
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Yes, comboboxes are realy anoying :(
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Me too : tabs please
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Tabs here too please!
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The same 8)
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Thomas and I would like to have the tabs back, too.
But: IIRC the change was due to some incompatibilities with MAC ?! ?! ?!
Not sure about that but if so reverting back to tabs would maybe be a bigger issue for MAC compatibility... afb??? (Maybe already solved with wx28...)???
With regards, Morten.
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Tabs were cool and less painful to use. :)
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yeah, there was something about that too many tabs won't show up correctly under wx2.6.
in case this is fixed in wx2.8 and C::B can be compiled with wx2.8 on Mac the tabs should be reintroduced :D
(i am not a Mac-user, but it wouldn't be right to make this worse for Mac-users)
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Tabs were better.
Anyway, with tabs or with cobmo, it could be great if C::B remembered the last tab I used and show it first automatically (it's real pain when you're trying to setup a new toolchain, as you have to open this dialog many times and it always starts from the first page).
Also, why not to make this dialog non-modal?
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If its a mac issue you can I guess you could try and use different resource files for Mac and everyone else. Combine with some ifdefs and you should be set.
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The only Mac issue I recall was that the tabs do not report their size, so they extended outside the window without scrolling. But it should probably be checked again, with wxWidgets 2.8.4
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OK everyone... point taken.
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Damn, what an amount of posts! It's strange this haven't surfaced before.
Someone noted, that it takes an extra click with the combo boxes to achieve the same thing as opposed to tabs. Apart from the current issue, this "extra click" also applies for other UI elements. I think all dialogs should be created by considering the number of clicks required to reach a certain option, and minimize this amount as much as possible. In general, I think it's a good GUI principle. I'm also referring to those "Are you sure?" dialogs, that cannot be disabled (for ex. at Linker libraries Delete option).
(BTW, Just a quick question: if the devs also preferred the old thing, who changed it then? :) )
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Greets,
B.
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(BTW, Just a quick question: if the devs also preferred the old thing, who changed it then? :) )
Of course, devs changed it; due to some Mac related problems.
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(BTW, Just a quick question: if the devs also preferred the old thing, who changed it then? :) )
Some times we change stuff because of cross-platform issues, other times for compatibility and other times for experimentation.
In most cases though, we eventually settle with what is generally accepted...