Standardize Closing Of Tabs

[snowpunter]

Current shortcuts for TestStand include Ctrl-D to close executions and Ctrl-F4 to close a sequence file. However, both of those windows show up as tabs in the current GUI layout.

Every modern internet browser allows the user to close a tab with Ctrl-W. This would also be a neat feature when only trying to close one report at a time when viewing the results from multiple UUTs, instead of closing all reports by closing all executions with Ctrl-D.

[dug9000]

Ctrl-F4 closes the active document window in the sequence editor, including execution windows, not just sequence files. Also you can change it to Ctrl+W if you want by customizing the keyboard shortcuts for the menu item. It is admittedly a bit misleading in that the menu item says "Close Sequence File 1", but it is really a special menu item that changes its caption based on the active document.

[Jimmy_Reumuth]

Every web browser I've seen closese a tab window with either Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4. Ctrl+F4 is the standard windows hotkey to close the active document window. Many applications close the active window with Ctrl+F4 but not Ctrl+W, like Visual Studio for example.

[LoquitoPollo]

Browsers also support a closing tabs with a mouse middle-click. That would be cool too if it's not too late.

[dug9000]

middle-click to close tabs is also already in the beta.

[jcoro]

Awesome.  Can you move the "X" to close the tab on to the tab itself.  This is how it is in tabbed web browsers.  I hate having to move my mouse all the way to the right side of the screen for each tab that I need to close.

[Lars_L]

I'm happy to announce that this feature is included in the now released NI TestStand 2013! For more details on the feature or to download the new version and give it a spin, check out www.ni.com/teststand/whatsnew

[Lars_L]

Also thanks for the feedback jcoro! It was a litte late in development to consider adding the "X" to each tab but this is something we could consider for future versions of TestStand. Could you create another idea exchange tab so we can track the suggestion (and of course give credit where it's due =])? Thanks!

Lars