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Document selector RIGHT justify
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 3:23 pm
by jeffy
It would be nice if the document selector justified to the RIGHT, instead of LEFT (it currently left-justifies). If it right-justified instead, then I could display full paths, but squish the selector to be skinny.
Instead of displaying this (as it does now):
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| C:\applications\whatev |
| C:\applications\whatev |
| C:\applications\whatev |
| C:\applications\whatev |
| C:\applications\whatev |
| C:\applications\whatev |
| C:\applications\whatev |
It could display this:
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| ubdirectory\myfile.txt |
| bdirectory\myfile2.txt |
| bdirectory\myfile3.txt |
| bdirectory\myfile4.txt |
| bdirectory\myfile5.txt |
| bdirectory\myfile6.txt |
| bdirectory\myfile7.txt |
| bdirectory\myfile8.txt |
| bdirectory\myfile9.txt |
| directory\myfile10.txt |
Much clearer!
Document selector RIGHT justify
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:42 am
by Thomas Schremser
According to Murphy's Law the interesting part of the path would be on the
left side if it was right justified.
So I think the document selector should better display a horizontal scrollbar if needed than justify and truncate.
Greetings from Austria
Thomas
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:25 pm
by webmasta
Interesting concept Jeffy... but should you be working on two or more files that has the same name but relate to different projects then the path now becomes important... I almost never use the doc selector if all my opened files can fit comfortably using doc tabs.
Having said that, almost from day one, I undocked the selector and widened it to fit my screen, then closed it... If I absolutely need to bring a file to front and its tab is off the screen, I just press F11 and the selector pops open wide angle, select my file and F11 to close (instead of poking around with the tab scroll which I can never seem to control properly)
If for any reason I cannot still see my filename, then I absolutely need to revisit my paths.
What would be a winna is a doc tree for the selector.
Re: Document selector RIGHT justify
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:35 am
by gracefool
Thomas Schremser wrote:So I think the document selector should better display a horizontal scrollbar if needed than justify and truncate.
Ewww! A horizontal scrollbar taking up screen space? No thanks. If a horizontal scrollbar is added, it will have to be optional.
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:43 pm
by ramonsky
If you can't read the filenames, the ENTIRE document selector is wasting screen space. If the addition of a scrollbar should make it more useable then you won't see me complaining.