I Am Abomination Tabs
Karri Weston
Managing multiple tabs in InDesign is an abomination. Firstly, the tolerance between reshuffling tabs and pulling a tab out to a separate window is far too small. Try doing this on a 4K screen, move your mouse a couple of millimetres up or down and all of a sudden your tab is now it's own window. Worse still is that when you pull it back into the tabs, it goes right to the back.
This leads me to my second issue. The lack of any way to reshuffle tabs that have multiple tabs in between. There are two ways to do this and they are both tedious at best. Firstly is to move a tab four or five documents ahead. Then select a document four or five tabs ahead of that, then re-select the document you are moving and move it again. Repeat a bunch of times until you've moved the tab to where you need it and hope that you don't accidentally pull it out into its own window, because you have to start again. Second method is to open every single tab in between the two documents you're trying to bring together and open them out to a window, then drag back into tabs (this sends that tab to the back).
Yes! I have to create so many forms in inDesign and the tabs are the most frustrating thing. You would think since it's 2020 this feature would have been updated by now. It's so time consuming when you want to make a small change, but really have to move every tiny tab arrow.
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As you can see in the screenshot below, the new tabs take up more real estate space and less of the page is visible for absolutely no good reason. This is why I think the new tabs look is useless and redundant, no need to try and catch fads. Tab islands are ugly, oversized for no good reason and functionally inferior to REAL tabs.
SAP should be ashamed of this abomination of an app. I mean salesforce is bad, but compared to Concur, creating and advancing opportunities in salesforce is like playing Frogger. This app is unintuitive, clunky, buttons and tabs all over the place, slow as Hades, and full of errors and warnings that are impossible to figure out. The aggregate wasted human time trying to submit expense reports with this tool must easily exceed 100M man hours per year. It literally takes an hour to complete a 2-3 day expense report. I would rather have to tape my receipts to cardboard and mail them in boxes than use this tool. How can SAP have let this happen?
Just a suggestion - go to the website and click Help. There are plenty of useful docs and tutorials for the app and website. There could be some shortcuts and easier ways of doing things than what you are currently doing.
Thank you for the helpful response. I have indeed spent much time reviewing docs and tutorials. Getting help navigating a field of landmines is lovely but the question is why can't we just design the field to have an easy path to follow.
I wanted to organize some data in my YAML frontmatter by keeping it namespaced under parent properties. However, Obsidian is set by default to indent using tabs rather than spaces, and this applies also when editing the YAML frontmatter.
Currently, this results in the frontmatter failing to parse if there are any tab-indented portions. If there are no tab-indented portions then parsing succeeds as expected. If indentation is manually done with spaces then parsing also succeeds, until I meet a tab increment at which point the spaces are converted into a tab and parsing fails again.
Another thought regarding proposed solutions is a visual warning in the editor to tell the user if their frontmatter is invalid, ideally with an indication of where parsing failed, but even a warning that it failed at all is good.
Since a recent update in Chrome (Windows, desktop) if I change to some tabs, which haven't been opened for a longer time, Chrome automatically performs a refresh on the page. It only happens, when the tab hasn't been opened for a longer time.
The OP is right. This has started happening in the latest release (Chrome Stable Version 48). I was also going bonkers due to this new 'feature' and then I did some research. It is not due to any extension as another user has suggested. It's a relatively new parameter which has been turned ON by default in the new release. Chrome Team is calling it "Tab Discarding". This may happen if there are many Tabs open and Chrome is running out of Memory. According to their documentation, "Tabs are now sorted from most interesting to least interesting. The least interesting tab may be discarded if we run out of physical memory." I suppose least interesting would translate to those tabs which weren't accessed in a while.
Though they are trying to help us free some RAM, however, this 'feature' totally ruins the tab if you don't want its contents to refresh due to some reason, like a YouTube video you paused at a particular location. Or wanted to go back to some top headlines on the homepage of CNN, which you had glanced at earlier and now you want to go back to them, but as soon as you click the tab, this 'feature' auto refreshes the page, updating the headlines. List goes on and on. I also had some Amazon tabs open and had specifically wanted not to have the page update, because it had some particular images and design elements displayed that I wanted to refer later, but when I got back to those pages, the 'Tab-discarding' feature 'auto refreshed' all of them, replacing them with the current version of the pages, totally devoid of whatever I wanted to refer to. And for those who suggest it is probably Amazon's auto-refresh, no, Amazon doesn't auto-refresh product pages, I have had pages remain open for many days and they would never update unless I clicked Refresh.
Step 6 Click on the extension icon (a white circular arrow in a red hexagon) at the top of the screen when you want to stop a page automatically refreshing. Note that the icon only appears when you visit a page that uses automatic refreshing.
Those little tabs on the sides interlock so you can link breadboards together. If you don't want the power bus between each board you can cut the adhesive backing and remove them, they are also connected using tabs.
What I have noticed, and this could be something to do with OP's question is that some breakout boards, especially those for an already large module ( eg ESP8266 etc.) consume so much of the breadboard space that there is hardly any space left to make connections to it.
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What I have noticed, and this could be something to do with OP's question is that some breakout boards, especially those for an already large module ( eg ESP8266 etc.) consume so much of the breadboard space that there is hardly any space left to make connections to it.
Because it teaches you only to waggle components if it does not work. It adds an extra dimension of things to go wrong. So many times people come here with problems that turn out to be faulty bread boards. I have seen people at exhibitions waggling components on a bread board once the public have been admitted. They don't travel well and they don't last once a circuit is on the board giving rise to the "it worked yesterday " syndrome.
Also true. I am a chronic offender. I can't bring myself to through away a breadboard. I stand next to the trash can holding the breadboard right above it and my fingers won't open. This goes on for so long eventually I have to go eat or go to the bathroom...or go to bed. I put it away for the next attempt. Never happens...
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Because it teaches you only to waggle components if it does not work. It adds an extra dimension of things to go wrong. So many times people come here with problems that turn out to be faulty bread boards. I have seen people at exhibitions waggling components on a bread board once the public have been admitted. They don't travel well and they don't last once a circuit is on the board giving rise to the "it worked yesterday " syndrome.
A bit like stabilisers on a bike. You can know when to take it off but if you never have them in the first place that transition is unnecessary. Many people, myself included, never had stabilisers when learning to ride.
I agree with many others that these plug-in breadboards are an abomination for all but
a quick test lash-up with few components. Their connections are unreliable, their stray capacitance and inductance is large and unknown ,they won't take much current, and they take up masses of space.
I have more than a dozen solderless breadboards with different circuits on them that I maintain at all times with no problems. Every time a post comes along with some variation of one of the circuits I test it and then either leave it like that or restore the original configuration. I have kept all the circuits because they continue to work. Originally, my plan was to keep them until they stopped working and then remove the components and clean the breadboard with a can of pressurized air but they continued to work. This includes five. standalone ATmega328s ( with 16 MHz crystals) , one L293 , one H-bridge stepper driver , one HV EL backlight power supply ( made with two ATtiny85s, ) and a bunch of other common circuits. I only use one circuit at any given time and sometimes build something involving up to ten chips and then leave it until I am sure I don't need it any more and then remove all the components and blow out the dust with the air cans. This allows me to test many different posts with almost no effort because the circuits are already built. All I have to do is reconfigure them to match the OP's circuit. I use a few cans of air per year. I have not had any circuits fail to work.after blowing out the dust. ( it's in my garage).
For the record , I started building these circuits when I joined the forum almost exactly 3 years ago (Nov-4th, 2013). Since then I have removed many circuits to build others and then replaced the original circuits on some breadboards while leaving the others intact. There is no rhyme or reason for why I will disassemble any particular circuit, other than I want to try a different design or want to put something else there. Very , very , rarely is it because the circuit is intermittent or unreliable.
Old equipment, if properly maintained , can continue to serve it's purpose for many years. I once had to through out a breadboard because the chip overheated and melted the plastic , but that is extremely rare. The small breadboard cost about $7 at Fry's. The H-bridge driver is on a very large metal base breadboard that I bought in 1982.