pop-out IDE tabs?

Hi All,

what do you think of the idea of allowing the IDE to pop out to a separate browser window, and likewise its tabs?

My use case is this:

I prefer to arrange the windows with the information I need side by side on a large monitor. In this way I can have separate windows with both a full view of my running web app, the editor of the current method I'm writing, and a class browser.

I know this would require restructuring of the IDE's architecture, but since Helios is already dealing with a sever-side VM, and we have our own server script, it might be worthwhile.

What do you think?

-- Siemen

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Helios does this (run require('amber/helpers').popupHelios() in JS console), and old IDE is being left to retire, so probably nothing will be added to it.

Herby

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On 03 Dec 2013, at 14:35, Herby Vojčík <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Helios does this (run require('amber/helpers').popupHelios() in JS console), and old IDE is being left to retire, so probably nothing will be added to it.

Very cool, I didn't know that! How does it communicate with the VM in the host html page?

This is a great start. I can see both my whole browser window and Helios. But unfortunately, running popupHelios() twice replaces the contents of the popup, so I cannot create multiple popups and see several tabs of the IDE at once.

Is anyone else interested in opening the IDE tabs (SUnit, Workspace, Transcript and Browser) as genuine (target='_blank') browser tabs?

This would allow us to arrange, dock and undock them using the native browser & window manager. This would solve my problem of eg using the Workspace and browsing APIs with the class browser at the same time.

-- Siemen

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