Put VR, VR3, and other widgets into a tabbed body

[Thomas Passin]

The body frame can be converted into a tabbed widget that contains the body editor.  You can add other widgets like VR, VR3, RPCalc, and others as tabs in the tabbed widget too. The advantage of doing this is that it's not necessary to split up Leo's window into more pieces when opening VR, and the others. The body editor and all the pther panes will remain the same size they were. This improves readability and editing. I usually use VR3 in a tab these days. Switching between the body editor and VR3 is as easy as clicking on the right tab.

The scripts are fairly simple.  They are written as @commands ready to be copied into your myLeoSettings.leo file. I have attached a zipped outline containing the ones I use. I created a "Layouts" menu in myLeoSettings.leo that includes these commands; the outline doesn't include these menu settings. I have also attached a screen shot showing the tabbed body pane. The scripts could be modified slightly to create tabs for other widgets too.

If you try to add one of the widgets (like VR3) to a tab but you forgot to make the body tabbed first, no harm will be done.  The widget will simply open in a new tab in the Log frame instead. After making the body tabbed, you can re-run the script to move the widget to a new tab in the body pane.

There is no keyboard shortcut to navigate between the new tabs so far as I know.  It should be possible to set that up but I haven't looked into it. You have to click on a tab with the mouse.

I posted about these scripts once before, but I think it was before the current layout system was finalized.  Most people have probably forgotten about it, anyway. Go ahead and try these scripts out, see if you like the tabbed body layout.

[jkn]

Thanks Thomas, I will take a look at this for my own purposes

    J^n

[Edward K. Ream]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

The body frame can be converted into a tabbed widget that contains the body editor.  You can add other widgets like VR, VR3, RPCalc, and others as tabs in the tabbed widget too.

Thanks, Thomas, for these straightforward scripts. They show the power and flexibility of Leo's new layout code.

Edward