Zeus IDE

In the Document List window, it would be useful to be able to select multiple files/buffers, then have a context menu option to manipulate the windows for those files. Specifically, cascade, tile, tile vertically, and tile horizontally would be very useful. Minimize and restore might also be helpful. If you weren't currently in MDI mode, this would put you there.

I find that I don't use multiple windows very often because they are such a pain to set up. I usually have many files open, so tiling or cascasding them all doesn't work very well for me and by the time I've minimized them all and restored the 2 or 3 I'd like to tile, I just don't bother unless I really need to.

Might there be a way to write a macro to do something like this? I can't think of a convenient way to specify which windows to operate on, otherwise it looks like the basic operations are there.

Bill Diener

Hi Bill,

In the Document List window, it would be useful to be able to select multiple files/buffers, then have a context menu option to manipulate the windows for those files.

Unfortunately this is not really possible

Zeus is a stock standard Windows MDI application which means all the windows management is pretty much handled by Windows itself.

All the Window Tile, Cascade, Arrange Icons etc functionality is provided by the built in Windows MDI class and it is pretty much an all or nothing type of thing.

For example, standard Windows MDI does not provide a way to only tile, cascade, arange a selected number of windows. It is pretty much an all or nothing type of thing

Cheers Jussi

What I do when I want to use MDI windows is to minimize all, then restore the ones I want (which cascades them), then tile them either vertically or horizontally. It seems like this should be do-able programmatically. I'm guessing that adding a window to the mix or opening another file might be a bit more work, however, but it seems like the same approach might do it.

What I might try is to loop through the open files and generate a list, then use keyboard_input to move through the list, select files, then restore the selected ones and tile them. I think that would accomplish what I'm looking to do.

Hi Bill,

From within the Zeus Document List dialog, it might be possible to add minimise, restore and maximize menu items to the popup menu.

So in other words when using this dialog you could select a group of windows and perform any one of these three actions on the selected windows.

Is that the sort of functionality you are looking for

Cheers Jussi

That's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for.

What would maximize do? As I recall, when I maximize one window they all get maximized.

Anyway, being able to do that would let me accomplish exactly what I want by minimizing all, calling up the FileListDisplay, selecting the windows I want, restoring them, then tiling.

The following Zeus 3.97 adds this feature: http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4766

To install this patch, backup your current Zeus installation and replace your current files with those contained in the zip.

Cheers Jussi

Awesome! I've tried it briefly and it appears to work fine - I'll give it more of a workout tomorrow. Thanks!

Bill