Number of tabs

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Is there any way to know the number of tabs on a lister?

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Only within scripting, I am afraid.

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Thanks

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Well you can count them yourself as well, it depends what you want the information for :wink:

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I wanted to know my tab count too on rare occasions. I ended up putting the value in the tab context menu 'Setting...' button tooltip. The tab count is provided by an evaluator variable for tab context.

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tab_count_tooltip_cmd
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=IsSet(count)?"Open the Preferences page for configuring folder tabs\nTab count: "+count:"N/A"

You could also create a menu item in the tab context menu that only shows the tab count.

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tab_count_menu_item_cmd
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  1. Customize mode
  2. Context Menus tab
  3. Double-click 'Folder tabs' from the list
  4. Add a new item

Since I don't need the tab count too often I chose the former option. You could also use the latter and hide it unless a modifier is held down by adding. @showif:=KeyDown("ctrl")

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Thanks, it's given me some ideas.

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In case you didn't notice an evaluator variable tabcount was recently added for button context. Doesn't need to be in the tab context menu anymore.

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Here's a button to give the tab count in the active file display:

Tab Count Button in the Folder Tabs Context Menu.dcf (559 Bytes)

It should be used in the Folder Tabs context menu.

Here is the code:

//https://resource.dopus.com/t/number-of-tabs/56700/5

@label:"Tabs in the Source File Display: " + count
=IsSet(count)
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thanks, it works

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Using a variation of this to get tab counts for both source and destination in the same button:

@label:"S: " + tabcount + " | D: " + tabcount_other

This works fine whether in single file or dual file display. When in dual file display, tabount_other returns 0, with label showing

D: 0

I would like to refine this so the label changes to show either "S: # | D: #" or "S: #" based on DUAL=On and DUAL=Off status. I have tried variations of this with no success:

@if:Set DUAL=On
@label:"S: " + tabcount + " | D: " + tabcount_other
@if:Set DUAL=Off
@label:"S: " + tabcount"

I don't think this works as it simply sets the label based on the last line. What evaluator options exist to accomplish this? If none, what's the appropriate if-then-else syntax?

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@label:"S: " + tabcount + (tabcount_other ? (" | D: " + tabcount_other) : "")
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@Leo I think you just set a new forum response time record...

It works, thanks!

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