Try A Tabbed Body Pane

[Thomas Passin]

In the recent discussion about problems with the Add-Editor command and its added editor, I floated the idea of making the body pane be a tabbed widget instead of the current stacked widget.  I found it was simple to make this change in Leo's core code. Trying it out, I wrote a script to put VR3 into the tabbed body pane.  I learned that I like to use it that way.

Then I realized that I could write script so that anyone could try out a tabbed body pane without needing to make any changes in Leo's code. My scripts are in the attached outline. There are three: one to make the change, one to add a VR3 tab, and one to add a VR tab.  You have to run the first one first: Convert Body Editor parent from QStackedWidget to QTabWidget on the fly. This changes the body pane into a tabbed widget. The tabs are draggable so you can change their order.

I don't have scripts to reverse these changes but they would be easy to write.

[Edward K. Ream]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:53 AM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

In the recent discussion about problems with the Add-Editor command and its added editor, I floated the idea of making the body pane be a tabbed widget instead of the current stacked widget.  I found it was simple to make this change in Leo's core code. Trying it out, I wrote a script to put VR3 into the tabbed body pane.  I learned that I like to use it that way.

Then I realized that I could write script so that anyone could try out a tabbed body pane without needing to make any changes in Leo's code. My scripts are in the attached outline.

This is beautiful work, Thomas. It opens up a range of possibilities.

Edward

[Thomas Passin]

Thanks, Edward!

I have put these scripts into myLeoSettings.leo as menu items in one of my custom menus.

I can put RPCalc into a tab too, but when it's there it receives both key presses and key releases for some reason and that doubles each number keyed in. After I filter the key releases out RPCalc will go into a body pane tab too.

I first got the idea for making real changes to Leo's behavior using local scripts when I developed the code to highlight the current line in the editor.  I did most of that work, and the development of the right margin marker line code, using scripts in my Workbook.  It's surprising how much can be done that way.

[Thomas Passin]

It took me only a few minutes to write a script to open my browser bookmarks manager in a tab in the body pane. This app is a custom QWidget that interacts with the tree.  Up to now I have usually put it onto a tab in the log frame, but this is better.  See the attached screen shot.

Basically, any QWidget-based GUI object can be put into a tab in the body pane, once the body pane has been set up with tabs.  It's easy.