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folder stops colored
Posted: 2009-07-28, 00:41 UTC
by gvulpetti
I am used to employ tens of folder tabs - literally. Is there any way to color a tab so that one could distinguish folder-category jobs at a glance?
Thanks
Giovanni Vulpetti
Rome - Italy
Posted: 2009-07-28, 01:41 UTC
by Balderstrom
Posted: 2009-07-28, 10:56 UTC
by StickyNomad
There is a content plugin that allows tab coloring and more:
http://en.totalcmd.pl/download/wdx/Oth/TwinKey
I tested it for a short while and although it looks promising and has some really useful features (e.g. showing the file cursor in in the target(inactive) panel), it slows down TC a bit in some cases and also still is a little buggy (rare access violations, interface glitches).
But it is perhaps worth a try for you. Be sure to read the readme how to install and activate the plugin. If this thing will get more stable and fast in upcoming versions, I may start to use it permanently.
But anyway, I still would prefer a simple built-in Tab coloring mechanism in TC. Colored tabs really can help to recognize tabs easier when having a lot tof them, and this also would allow some kind of visual grouping of correlated tabs...
Just adding one option to a tabs context menu would be necessary: 'set tab color'.
Posted: 2009-07-28, 16:01 UTC
by Balderstrom
@StickyNomad, I think a lot of people would like it. I don't see how a plugin that modifies TC's GUI will be able to be all that stable.
I thought the reason it (Colored Tabs) wasn't done (for so long) was the author said it wasn't possible with Delphi GUI elements, since TC doesn't use native Windows GUI controls - which limits standard things like dragging menu's around and easily resizing them - or skinning etc.
Posted: 2009-07-28, 16:11 UTC
by Hacker
I think there's also a PowerPro script
somewhere.
HTH
Roman
Posted: 2009-07-28, 16:32 UTC
by Balderstrom
@Hacker, wow lots of interesting stuff w/ PowerPro and TC. Everytime I took a look at PowerPro in the past the learning curve seemed too high and the interface awkward. WhenI got into using AHK, I stopped trying to play around with PP.