Maestro: Tab enhancements for closing resources

[jbirch]

It would be nice to have:

• A Close icon on the right-hand side of the each tab, like in IE
• The ability to right-click on a tab and choose "Close" or "Close Other Resources" or "Close All"

[ksgeograf]

Yes, that is actually an obvious enhancement. I will certainly implement this.

[ksgeograf]

Well, that is not supported in .Net, and apparently there is no easy way to fix it. I have found this acceptable solution: ​http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/MDITabControl.aspx?msg=1973375

But it does not use the machine theme, and seems a bit "over the top". I am not sure it will work in Mono either.

[MaksimS]

Kenneth, maybe you should look after Weifen Luo's DockPanel suite. Jackie Ng implemented it in FdoToolbox application.

Here's link to DockPanel: ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/dockpanelsuite

And a link to Jackie's implementation: ​http://code.google.com/p/fdotoolbox/

[ksgeograf]

Yes. Thanks for the suggestion.

I have looked at it before, but it does not use the windows control, and thus it is likely not going to look equally nice on all windows themes and versions.

I have yet to determine if it runs on Mono.

[jng]

There is a application that comes with the DockPanel binary distribution. If that runs under Mono, that will answer your question.

[MaksimS]

If I recall correctly - Jackie tested it for Mono compatibility already. Would you mind contacting him about details?

[ksgeograf]

It might work under Mono/Win32 but it does not work under Mono/Linux: ​http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1786012&forum_id=402316

And the test application does not run either.

[jng]

I never tested nor claimed mono compatibility.

[MaksimS]

It's my mistake Jackie, sorry for confusion. I was obviously jumping into conclusions.

[jng]

3.0 puts close icons on each editor tab. Close other resources won't be implemented because the tabbed content is heterogeneous and some tabs hide on close.

Closing as fixed.