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Resolved tabs - should allow us to pull a tabbed maximized window into a floating window

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  1. mike S
    mike S
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Monday, 11 December 2023 16:36 PM UTC

In the IDE, I need to replicate the look of one datawindow onto another.  so i need to display them both on the screen at the same time.

the tab interface in the IDE does not allow me to pull one tab off in order to resize it below another tab.  the only option is to cascade all the windows. 

 

this is the same way the tabbed windows work in the runtime. 

 

the interface should allow us to pull tabbed windows into floating windows.  

After applytheme,Response window with SetWindowLon...
Powerbuilder 12.5.2
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 12 December 2023 17:09 PM UTC
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  3. # 1

Hi Mike;

  You could easily do that when your APP was using PB's "Dockable" Windows feature. Unfortunately, that feature was discontinued.  :-(

However, I really like your enhancement suggestion.  :-)

Regards ... Chris

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mike S
  1. mike S
  2. Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:49 PM UTC
yeah, i wish we had dockable windows
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Arnd Schmidt
  1. Arnd Schmidt
  2. Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:20 PM UTC
here you go... lol. (that feature was in PowerBuilder a decade ago and deprecated in PB2019 )

https://docs.appeon.com/pb2017/migrating_pb_apps/ch05s09.html

https://docs.appeon.com/pb/whats_new/ch03s01s05.html
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Mark Lee @Appeon
Mark Lee @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 12 December 2023 05:40 AM UTC
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Hi Mike,

Thanks for your valuable suggestion.

We'll record it as a new requirement/enhancement request and will transfer it to our product team for consideration.

Regards,

 

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Miguel Leeuwe
Miguel Leeuwe Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 11 December 2023 18:00 PM UTC
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Hi Mike,

Maybe a workaround could be to open 2 instances of Powerbuilder?

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mike S
  1. mike S
  2. Monday, 11 December 2023 18:24 PM UTC
you can cascade the window sheets to get them to not be maximized.



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mike S
  1. mike S
  2. Monday, 11 December 2023 18:26 PM UTC
its less an issue for developers (we are used to working around the IDE limitations) but just a plain example of the PB tabbed windows having the same exact issue that tabbed windows have for end-users. all customers/users expect to be able to peel off a tab just like a browser.
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