Topic: Title Bar/task Bar (1 of 9), Read 34 times Conf: VEDIT Suggestions From: Walt Pattinson Date: Monday, October 25, 2004 04:41 PM I feel it would be beneficial to display the current filename (sans path) in the Title Bar and Task Bar instead of the name VEDIT. The Icon tells us the program, but having the file name available when you have multiple windows open would be helpful. With multiple buffers open, the 'active' buffer should probably suffice.

Topic: Re: Title Bar/task Bar (2 of 9), Read 28 times Conf: VEDIT Suggestions From: Ted Green Date: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:30 AM At 04:41 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: >From: "Walt Pattinson" > >I feel it would be beneficial to display the current filename (sans path) in the Title Bar and Task Bar instead of the name VEDIT. The Icon tells us the program, but having the file name available when you have multiple windows open would be helpful. With multiple buffers open, the 'active' buffer should probably suffice. That seems like a very reasonable suggestion. I will move it to the top of the to-do list. Ted.

Topic: Re: Title Bar/task Bar (3 of 9), Read 30 times Conf: VEDIT Suggestions From: Christian Ziemski Date: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:54 AM On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:30:00 -0400, Ted Green wrote: >>From: "Walt Pattinson" >> >>I feel it would be beneficial to display the current filename (sans path) in >the Title Bar and Task Bar instead of the name VEDIT. > >That seems like a very reasonable suggestion. >I will move it to the top of the to-do list. Nice! So let me repost my suggestion from June, 22 (via mail): [...] A new Config option and a command to set VEDIT's title text (in the blue application title bar, now hard coded to "VEDIT") For example: Config(VEDIT_TITLE, "0=no title, 1=filename, 2=set by command", n) If set to 0 it's like now: no special title If set to 1 it shows the current filename (if more than one file is loaded it shows the one with focus.) Many applications behave like that. If set to 2 it's initially like 0 but can be set by a new Vedit_Title("some text") command. [...] Cheers Christian

Topic: Re: Title Bar/task Bar (4 of 9), Read 30 times Conf: VEDIT Suggestions From: Pauli Lindgren Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 09:43 AM On 10/29/2004 10:54:36 AM, Christian Ziemski wrote: > >If set to 0 it's like now: no special title >If set to 1 it shows the current >filename (if more than one file is >loaded it shows the one with focus.) > Many applications behave like that. I don't know about that. I don't recall seeing any application that works like that. The normal behavior is that when the document window inside the application is maximized, then the filename is displayed in the title bar of the application, otherwise it is displayed in the document window title bar. I don't see much reason to display the filename in Vedit title bar, but it might be useful to display it in the task bar. This would make it possible to identify multiple Vedit instances. (But I guess these two are linked together.) All the better if it can be selected from settings. -- Pauli

Topic: Re: Title Bar/task Bar (5 of 9), Read 30 times Conf: VEDIT Suggestions From: Ted Green Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:43 AM At 10:43 AM 11/2/2004, you wrote: >I don't know about that. I don't recall seeing any application that works like that. MS Word works that way. We try to use that as a model of how Win programs should work. >I don't see much reason to display the filename in Vedit title bar, but it might be useful to display it in the task bar. This would make it possible to identify multiple Vedit instances. (But I guess these two are linked together.) Precisely - they are linked together. Ted.

Topic: Re: Title Bar/task Bar (7 of 9), Read 29 times Conf: VEDIT Suggestions From: Pauli Lindgren Date: Thursday, November 04, 2004 08:09 AM On 11/2/2004 11:43:06 AM, Ted Green wrote: > >MS Word works that way. We try >to use that as a model of how >Win programs should work. I hope not! One of the most irritating features of Word is that it can only have one file open at a time. If you open another file, a new Word application window is opened. Ability to have multiple files open in single application is definitely a benefit in Vedit. Since Word only has one file open at a time, there is no separate document window with title bar to display the filename. Therefore, the filename is displayed in the title bar of the application (together with the name of the application). Just as Vedit and other Windows applications do when the document window is maximized. So, if this will be changed, it should be configurable, as Christian suggested. Another configuration option would be whether or not full path is displayed. BTW, it would be nice to be able to configure whether full path or just filename is displayed in each tab of the file selector panel, too. -- Pauli

Topic: Re: Title Bar/task Bar (8 of 9), Read 31 times Conf: VEDIT Suggestions From: Ian Binnie Date: Thursday, November 04, 2004 05:33 PM On 11/4/2004 8:09:12 AM, Pauli Lindgren wrote: >On 11/2/2004 11:43:06 AM, Ted Green >wrote: >> >>MS Word works that way. We try >>to use that as a model of how >>Win programs should work. > >I hope not! One of the most irritating >features of Word is that it can only >have one file open at a time. If you >open another file, a new Word >application window is opened. This is not true. Word is a MDI application, although the way the View windows are presented differs from the earlier versions (Office 97 & earlier). There is still a Windows menu. (For the record I don't like it either.)

Topic: Re: Title Bar/task Bar (9 of 9), Read 32 times Conf: VEDIT Suggestions From: Ted Green Date: Thursday, November 04, 2004 09:00 PM At 05:34 PM 11/4/2004, you wrote: >This is not true. Word is a MDI application, although the way the View windows are presented differs from the earlier versions (Office 97 & earlier). > >There is still a Windows menu. > >(For the record I don't like it either.) While I personally also don't like Word and rarely use it, I do consider it the authority on how most people expect a Windows program to work. Features added to Word often show up later as API functions in Windows. Nuff about Word. :-) Ted.

Topic: Re: Title Bar/task Bar (6 of 9), Read 30 times Conf: VEDIT Suggestions From: Christian Ziemski Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 01:26 PM On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 09:43:00 -0500, Pauli Lindgren wrote: >I don't know about that. I don't recall seeing any application >that works like that. For example the web browser Opera. Christian