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While I was working on a little software project I thought of something that would be very useful. I use PSPad as a programming editor and, like most decent editors of this type, it allows you to create/restore projects of multiple files located in disparate places.

Extending this concept, I thought it would be cool to have DO automatically open a predefined set of tabs for all the disparate project folders whenever I browse to a top level folder of a given project. Now I'm managing my project in terms of both content as well as file system organization. :smiley: This sounds like it would be a DO "Files Collection" but in addition to displaying the collection members in a lister pane, the collection member folders would be displayed as tabs whenever that top level "collection" folder is opened.

I see this working something like this... I browse to a DO collection that I've created for my project which contains my PSPad project file and all related virtual folders. The lister pane opens on the collection and automatically populates tabs for each collection member folder. I open my project file and now I'm good to go. I envision that the type of tab options in this context would be the same as they are now in DO9... tabs could be aliased and locked etc.

Cheers.
Maynard

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Opus already has Tab Groups which would probably do what you want.

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hey tanis.

I'm already making good use of tab groups. What I was thinking was extending that to trigger instantiation of a specific tab group under pre-defined conditions. If there is support to script something like this I'd be more than happy to put it together.

thanks
maynard

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Have you checked out what you can do with Opus styles yet? If not, you might want to check out how tab groups can be integrated into a style which can trigger a lot of things.