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Ang3lFir3
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Okay i've got a silly question about VS2005....

Anyone know how to get VS to open new codepage tabs on the right?.... You know in the empty space where you actually expect new tabs to open like every other tabbed application... and the other tabs in VS...

something about the fact i read from left to right and expect things to open in the empty spaces doesn't seem like such a hard concept to default.

Manip

I don't know ANY tabbed applications that open new tabs to the right... IE 7 and Firefox both open on the left...

Ang3lFir3
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Manip wrote:

I don't know ANY tabbed applications that open new tabs to the right... IE 7 and Firefox both open on the left...

since i haven't used FF in awhile.. I had to check and sure enough New tabs DO OPEN ON THE RIGHT...... because this is the empty space.....

for reference That Direction ---> is Right Tongue Out

Manip

It might be down to your internationalisation settings but most applications open tabs against the left hand edge extending to the right.

Ang3lFir3
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Manip wrote:
It might be down to your internationalisation settings but most applications open tabs against the left hand edge extending to the right.

funny cuz VS2005 was the first time i have ever seen that behavior in an application... IE7 may behave the same way i don't know and for the time being its irrelevant.

open rssbandit and click a link in a feed... the new tab is to the right of the original tab. ctrl+t in FF has the same behavior.... I dl'd newest version just to clarify....

all windows tabed menus start on the left and new or subsiquent tabs are to the right... the far left tab being the tab with index 0....

its standard behavior to have tabs open to the right hand side of all previous tabs.... no matter what my be occuring with new UI design it only makes sense..... and that is all irellevant as well... I want the option to change it if i can.... because its annoying

Why would you want the user to have to deal with new tabs moving everything to the right 1 position when all you are doing is adding a tab to the end...

think of it like an array..... where is the easiest place to insert a new value... at the begining or the end of the array?

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

Ang3lFir3 wrote:
funny cuz VS2005 was the first time i have ever seen that behavior in an application... IE7 may behave the same way i don't know and for the time being its irrelevant.

open rssbandit and click a link in a feed... the new tab is to the right of the original tab. ctrl+t in FF has the same behavior.... I dl'd newest version just to clarify....

all windows tabed menus start on the left and new or subsiquent tabs are to the right... the far left tab being the tab with index 0....

its standard behavior to have tabs open to the right hand side of all previous tabs.... no matter what my be occuring with new UI design it only makes sense..... and that is all irellevant as well... I want the option to change it if i can.... because its annoying

Why would you want the user to have to deal with new tabs moving everything to the right 1 position when all you are doing is adding a tab to the end...

think of it like an array..... where is the easiest place to insert a new value... at the begining or the end of the array?

Ah, so you meant 'right of the current tabs', not 'right side of the available space'... that clears it up a bit.

Seems to me the 'easiest' place to add a new value to an array is over an old value (i.e., x[y]=z), but I digress...

Ang3lFir3
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SlackmasterK wrote:

Ah, so you meant 'right of the current tabs', not 'right side of the available space'... that clears it up a bit.

Seems to me the 'easiest' place to add a new value to an array is over an old value (i.e., x[y]=z), but I digress...

Lol ok i can kinda see how someone might missunderstand what i was saying.... and yes Slackmaster thats what i mean.... To the right hand side of the other tabs.

and yes adding over another value is the easiest.... but you will notice i did specify only two of the possible scenarios in the question.

yall need to lighten up on the symantics

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

Ang3lFir3 wrote:
Lol ok i can kinda see how someone might missunderstand what i was saying.... and yes Slackmaster thats what i mean.... To the right hand side of the other tabs.

and yes adding over another value is the easiest.... but you will notice i did specify only two of the possible scenarios in the question.

yall need to lighten up on the symantics

I'm a sociopath, that's what I do. I over-analyze things. So, I guess that means you don't want your tabs to be taken over by default, eh?

BTW, if you're going to use (insert slur) Southern terms, use them right. It's spelled "y'all".

While I'm over-analyzing, I'd like to question the use of the term "Y'alls". Supposedly, "Y'all" is a conjunction of "You all". If this is the case, why do some people pluralize it? "You alls"? This makes even less sense to me than Y'all.

Ang3lFir3
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Lol slack you crack me up....

yes configurable tabs in VS would be kewl....

ohh and i know its "y'all" im just too lazy to type the ' .... i grew up in the rockies.... they say y'all there too.... as for y'alls its just bad english getting worse

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

I actually prefer them opening to the left like they do in VS2005. But then again, I also quite often start writing on the last page of a notebook and work backwards, so my brain is wired pretty weird when it comes to that. Smiley

Zeus
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This strange new tab behaviour bugs the hell out of me. It was not like this in VS 2003, its not like this in FF or Opeara, the most popular "tab" applications.

It seems most logical to me that new tabs open to the right of the tab on the far right, regardless of which tab is open.

Hope the dev team on VS can come up with a fix for this where we can configure this for ourselves ... seems like different developers want different things.

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

Ang3lFir3 wrote:
Lol slack you crack me up....

yes configurable tabs in VS would be kewl....

ohh and i know its "y'all" im just too lazy to type the ' .... i grew up in the rockies.... they say y'all there too.... as for y'alls its just bad english getting worse

Must have been the southern Rockies... I live in Colorado, and I haven't heard it from any local natives. Of course, I also don't go out much...

Ang3lFir3
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nope... grew up in Wyoming..... real country folks up there Tongue Out

rhm

Ang3lFir3 wrote:
Okay i've got a silly question about VS2005....

Anyone know how to get VS to open new codepage tabs on the right?.... You know in the empty space where you actually expect new tabs to open like every other tabbed application... and the other tabs in VS...

something about the fact i read from left to right and expect things to open in the empty spaces doesn't seem like such a hard concept to default.

Annoys the hell out of me as well. Why they couldn't make it configurable is beyond me. I know there's a moronic tendency these days to not offer options for a lot of things because users are supposedly unable to deal with more than a few decisions, but this is a developer tool ffs. There should be no less than 500 configuration options.

While we're at in the amount of customisation in the editor is quite pathetic compared to most 3rd-party code editors. It's a shame because it is a very powerful editor, it's just that the visual studio team thought they'd make all the decisions for us.

msew

anyone know how make the tabs appear on the right of the current tabs ala 2003?

The new behavior is pretty lame sauce.

MB

Sven Groot wrote:
I actually prefer them opening to the left like they do in VS2005.

I also prefer it the way it is... pushing the new tab onto the stack from the left, and popping the oldest one off the end (in terms of visibility) to the right. Makes perfect sense to me, and it had never occurred to me that people might want it otherwise.