How to hide tab bar in MLO5 for Windows?

[YellowBook]

Hi, I'm a long time user of MLO. There used to be an option to hide the tab-bar at the top of the screen, but can't find it in v5. Please could somebody point me in the right direction..

Thanks

Jon

[Stéph]

I don't think that's possible. If you're really struggling for space on your screen and it's any help, opening a view in a separate window with F3 strips out everything taking up space, other than the outline list itself. However, you can't access the notes from that view. F12 ("full screen view") toggles something similar, but doesn't get rid of the workspaces tab.

Stéphane

[YellowBook]

Thanks Stéphane, shame the option was removed and wish it was added back :( 

I've perhaps been using MLO incorrectly over the past few years, but I've never seen the point in using tabs. Working with 20 tabs when they all have the same caption (with no easy way of knowing which view they are using) is not very user friendly (an option to rename a tab would make it bit easier to identify which tab is which, or perhaps tabs could be named after the underlying view but then the list of views is performing the same role as the tab-bar which is probably why I don't use tabs (but with no option to turn the tab-bar off, this just clutters the UI).

[Andrei Bacean]

hi

to rename: right mouse click on tab > setup workspace

to identify which view is used: right mouse click> assign icon> current view icon

new tabs are opening automaticaly when you switch the view inside of a locked tab (tab with locked view). Thus, if you don't want new tabs to appear without your control, check the exisiting tab settings. i guess some of them (maybe the one which u use more often) has a locked view (right click>lock default in this tab is enabled).

if you wish to save space by hiding tabs and everything else above them, you can move them beyond the desktop top border.
here is an autohotkey script for that:

#If WinActive("ahk_class TfrmMyLifeMain")
 ^#Up:: ;move title bar and menu bar beyond the upper screen margin + increase the window height
  WinSet, Style, -0x30000, A
  WinMaximize, A
  WinGetPos,X,Y,W,H,A ;"A" to get the active window's pos.
  Y := Y - 55
  H := H + 55
  WinMove,A,,%X%,%Y%,%W%,%H%
 return
 ^#Down:: ;move the window back
  WinGetPos,X,Y,W,H,A ;"A" to get the active window's pos.
  Y := Y + 55
  H := H - 55
  WinMove,A,,%X%,%Y%,%W%,%H%
 return
#IfWinActive

the keys to control the window behaviour are Ctrl+Win+Up, and Ctrl+Win+Down.

to find more about autohotkey, see the official tutorial
https://autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm

br
Andrew

вторник, 5 февраля 2019 г., 22:57:21 UTC+2 пользователь YellowBook написал:

[YellowBook]

Hi Andrew, thanks for useful info. I didn't know you could rename tabs like that. I only ever use one tab and just use views when I want to work on a different subset of tasks which overrides content of active tab (which is fine as I can simply switch to a different set of tasks by selecting a different view). Thanks for the tip - if I don't want new tabs to appear when I switch views I need to unset 'Lock default in this tab' (that seems to work - thank you). Not so worried about screen space, the issue was more about how to operate MLO using a single-tab (which is why I don't need tab bar) but may check into AutoHotKey and see what else I could use it for.

Many thanks 

Jon

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Currently there is no option in MLO 5 to hide the tab-bar but we are going to add it back.