Design of MRU-Navigation wrt. Split-Views

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 13.02.09 15:27:16, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Friday 13 February 2009 03:55:57 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been thinking about how I should design the MRU-Navigatin and so far
> > I've got a pretty good idea how this will work with 1 active view and even
> > with multiple mainwindows. The only thing I'm not sure about is: How to do
> > multiple active views in the same Mainwindow.
> >
> > I think the "right thing" would be to keep a list of most-recently-used
> > documents per split-view. So if I've opened foo, bar, boo and then split on
> > boo and open baz in the new splitview I'd have two lists, one with
> > foo,bar,boo the other with boo,baz. And depending on which of the two
> > split-view's is currently active one walks through one or the other.
> >
> > For those who actually use split-view (I don't currently): Would that work?
> >
> > Or should both lists be visible at the same time and while switching
> > through the list I'll draw an outline around the view thats beeing
> > activated?
> 
> The lists need to be separated once a view is split off.

Technically, yes of course. The question is about whats visible. Having
the list of all splitted views visible would make it easy to switch to a
different splitted view.

Andreas

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