At 06:38 AM 7/21/99 -0500, wmperry(a)aventail.com wrote:
For the typical 'property sheet' type of widgets that andy is
using, a
border around them to show the area of control of the tab widget is normal
and desired. If you do not, then the tab widget is really no different
than a row of buttons placed on top of an arbitrary screen area.
Visually different I think :)
Now, if there was some way to use the smaller, triangular,
bottom-oriented
tab widgets, then I would agree that the extra border space is not needed
_as much_. I'd still like to be able to see it as an option though.
From a gut reaction to thee screenshot, I'd say cool concept but no way in
#%!@! I'd use it on a daily basis. I would hope you could turn it off. I
Of course.
typically have so many buffers open that it would quickly get pretty
nasty
with the large tabs. Using the smaller ones typically seen in
Like the buffer menu, only the last few recently used buffers are shown.
andy
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Dr Andy Piper
Senior Consultant Architect, BEA Systems Ltd