Re: Wish List Request: Tabbed SQL Query Window

Most of the query writing software I have worked with is tab-based. This
seems like a natural point in the evolution of pgAdmin. :-)

On 6/26/08, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> > Ryan Daniels a écrit :
> >>
> >> I would like to request that the SQL query window have tabs so that you
> >> can have multiple queries/files open in the same window.
> >>
> >
> > I think it could be a great idea. Don't know if it's really feasible but
> I
> > like the idea.
>
> Seems like it would be a lot of work. You'd need to seperate all the
> query code out into a seperate class that you could instantiate aas
> required on new tabs, and modify all the window options such that they
> affect all tabs, or work with just the selected one as appropriate
> (think 'Show line endings' vs. 'EOL Mode).
>
> It would also look pretty weird as we will be adding tabs to the text
> control soon anyway to handle the query builder, so we'll end up with
> two sets of tabs on a tabset.
>
> I'm happy to review patches though if someone wants to put some effort into
> it.
>
> --
> Dave Page
> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>