Document selector manual placement

[corsika]

Hi all,

First, let me express thanks again for the heads up that you can use a previous license for the newest version. That's so rare, and definitely full of win. So I heeded the advice and installed the new version. Woot!


Anyway... I'm working with a tool that I needs to be revamped, to the point where I'm going through a file, and making notes about what it does in a new file, or if the code doesn't need to be revamped, copying that code into the new one. When I'm done, I'll turn those pseudocode notes into real code and voila I have a bug free program *snicker*.

But this leads me to doing a lot of switching back and forth between files, namely four of them, which we can simply call old.h, old.cpp, new.h, and new.cpp. Now, let's pretend that o and n aren't right next to eachother in the alphabet, and the files are scattered in the document selector. CTRL+TAB is nice, but I really need a faster (and less left-handed-awkward) method of moving between the files.

My start bar is full enough as it is, so I would rather not open them in another instance of Textpad (although that will probably be my course of action if there isn't a viable solution.) What would be nicest though would be to manually place them wherever, like dragging them up or down in the menu and them just staying there. I imagine new files would just sit at the bottom. I could always double-spam F11 to resort them if I so desired. Another option would be multiple document selectors, but that's getting trickier, and probably not as friendly as it sounds.

Is there some piece of trivia in the minds of the Textpad wizards around that might present a solution to this problem? I mean, I can type the word "we are eased readers" all day (that's typed entirely with the left hand if you didn't catch on), but man I have trouble with CTRL+TAB.

Thanks for reading =)

-Cors

[corsika]

Interestingly enough, I just accidentally found a nifty solution. My mouse kind of stuck on me and I dragged a tab at the top (I didn't even realize those tabs were even there, and feel rather dumb for not seeing them) and it asked if I wanted a new horizontal or vertical tab group. Well, now I have split screen viewing of files, which not only gives me the ability to easily move tabs around how I want, but being split screen removes a lot of the need to jump between files.

Of course, if a seasoned user has a different trick, I'm certainly all ears to hear it!

Cheers,

-Cors

[ak47wong]

You can rearrange the tabs to whatever order you want if that helps.

Also, Ctrl+Num1..Ctrl+Num9 switch to windows 1-9, which sounds useful. I seem to recall in TP4, windows 1-9 corresponded to the first 9 documents in the document selector, so Ctrl+1 would go to the first document, and so on. Unfortunately, in TP5 the entries in the Window menu always rearrange themselves after switching documents, which renders these shortcuts useless.

Andrew

[corsika]

You can rearrange the tabs to whatever order you want if that helps.

Indeed, I found that to be quite useful after I discovered their existence. I'm kind of hoping they weren't in TP4 or anything before that ... that I've been using this program for 3 years and never knew they were there would hurt a little!

The current setup I have (vertical split screen) seems to be working quite well, although I needed to boost up my monitor resolution to 1600x1200 to get the on-screen real estate to make it useful. I only get 4 or so tabs per side visible, but I can easily move them back and forth between left or right sides.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume if I have a vertical split, I can't have a horizontal split as well? The option seemed to have disappeared once I initiated the vertical split. having one lengthwise at the bottom would certainly have its uses.

Thanks for the reply,

-cors