{"id":26652,"date":"2023-03-16T23:34:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T03:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=26652"},"modified":"2023-03-17T00:55:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T04:55:39","slug":"windows-ui-idea-open-window-to-right-stitched-to-right-of-current-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=26652","title":{"rendered":"Windows UI idea: open window to right, &#8220;stitched&#8221; to right of current window"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2023-03-16: A <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EtZ2bmqV5UI\" target=\"_blank\">really crappy video<\/a> on this; explanations and such to follow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"windows stitched split two example 2023 03 16 a\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EtZ2bmqV5UI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is not well written; raw; needs work.  Do not expect the below to make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two distinct ideas presented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open a window to the right of the current window<\/li><li>&#8220;Stitching&#8221; windows together so they operate as one window.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>opening a window to the right of the current window<ul><li>2click the word(s) I want to open a window about;<\/li><li>Rclick the now-highlighted word(s) &gt; pick New window stitched to right&#8230;<ul><li><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>&#8220;Stitching&#8221; windows together.<ul><li>when any of the stitched-together windows is minimized, they all minimize; same with maximize, move, close. the accordant protection of file saving will still apply of course; closing the calculator won&#8217;t immediately close and lose the drawing; Fusion360 would detect the attempted <strong>Close<\/strong> operation and would ask to save work first.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>this function might be implement by <strong>CTRL<\/strong>-clicking the desired windows<\/li><li>not crazy or wedded to the word &#8220;stitched&#8221;. &#8220;Pinned&#8221; is already taken; &#8220;Linked&#8221; as well. &#8220;Stapled&#8221; or &#8220;Clipped&#8221; or &#8220;Glued&#8221;.<\/li><li>this term (currently &#8220;stitched&#8221;) means the windows will operate together. they might look like independent windows, and from the OS perspective, they are.  But then of course, all things on the display are &#8220;windows&#8221;..,<\/li><li>or could be by organizing the various windows as one likes, then (keystroke> and select from an <strong>ALT-TAB<\/strong> type layout; click the ones wanted and they attach; first one selected, or maybe the currently focused window is the &#8220;main&#8221; and the ones select 2nd, 3rd, etc are in that order from top to bottom of desired side.<\/li><li>of course, any mention here of left\/right\/top\/bottom, specifz sixing sizing, are all configurabloe; gether in the orientation eht eare in<\/li><li>on my 4K <\/li><li>ors theser things should be openingablr as a shortcut? or somehow stored and re-openable as a group; so if I open the Fusion360 stitch group, F360 + the 3 or 4 other tools open up as in the pace AI want them,.<\/li><li>I like the idea that they are phsically attached at the edsgers, but there&#8217;s no reason (as katherine pointed out) they can&#8217;y be spead out; the idea is they are logically connected to each other form a control pov, but can be anywhere a window can go.<\/li><li>such windows can be grouped together regardless of what type of window they are,. i&#8217;m not looking for a chomre tab organizer, or a FileExplorer organizer (Stardock Fences might be doing that for me now?). both of those exiswt butydo not address the issues I have. so i expect to have a chrome tab as a main focus window, where zI am reading an article; attached to the right upper corens is a small windows with my soc file in Wordpad, below that is a calculator set to the specific mode i require for the things I usually do (usually just the stardnad simp-e calc, but maybe I&#8217;d like anpother calc set to conversins; even smarter, the converter sets itself to the uinits most approp to the web page it is sticthed to (like, I&#8217;l reading a EU article, so the curreny conversion cponverter shows with EU as the input and CDN$, US$, and UK&#x1f4b7; (look at the emnoji usage!) justt to the right; even smarter: as ai hover over a EU value, the coverter shows the variopus conversions, with an easy to reference history like a pper readout; even bette: my eye tracker see what EU value I am looking at; even better: my BCI sees me looking at an EU vcale and does the lookup and returns the preferred values via BCI, like it just came from emomey.<\/li><li>antoehr example: a Fusion360 window with the McMaster-Carr lookup pinned to the right side, a calulator, and a notepad; can give 80% of the widtd to the Fusion360, then the 20% strip to the right has 3 or would bew ahndy to have thes stiched on windoww able to sorta maximxe as reuqired; for instance, if the ERP part invenoy lookup is stitched, a 2click on it will bring uip[ fiullhight, 40% or width, overlaying or pushing f360 disaly to accomdate. like folk alkread due this stuff, the key is by stitching them togethe this is so much easier.<\/li><li>i think this function, at least minimally, might be doable in a Chrome extension (at least for chrome insntaces&#8230; but can a chrome expention open a windows file explorer or calculator instance and stick it to the right side??? I do have Tab Resize v2.5.3, but it doesn&#8217;t allow anything but full screen splitsd. the cusomt layout doesn&#8217;t allow for liminting splits to a specific regaino of screen.but this reall y bnelons at the os window manager level.<\/li><li>note how once again I see a graphics\/text dichotomy issue; I am typing these notes again; I first typed them into the various text inserts to the video. But like MSPaint, once that text is stemped onto the graphic it can&#8217;t be seelcted as text-proper, only as text-image. And you can&#8217;t paste text.image into this blog edits, or any other text.proper editor. But I digress&#8230;<ul><li><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is original text from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=14320\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">soc file<\/a>. link to it!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-16ffd43e-78d5-4799-a87a-ed63faf29cab\"><li><ul><li>this funtion might be implement by CTRL-clkicking the deesired windows<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>or could be by organizing the various windows as one likes, then (keystroek&gt; and select from an ALT-TAB type dislay click them all and they attach to gether in the orientation eht eare in<\/li><li>ors theser things should be openingablr as a shortcut? or somehow stored and re-openable as a group; so if I open the Fusion360 stitch group, F360 + the 3 or 4 other tools open up as in the pace AI want them,.<\/li><li>I like the idea that they are phsically attached at the edsgers, but there&#8217;s no reason (as katherine pointed out) they can&#8217;y be spead out; the idea is they are logically connected to each other form a control pov, but can be anywhere a window can go.<\/li><li>such windows can be grouped together regardless of what type of window they are,. i&#8217;m not looking for a chomre tab organizer, or a FileExplorer organizer (Stardock Fences might be doing that for me now?). both of those exiswt butydo not address the issues I have. so i expect to have a chrome tab as a main focus window, where zI am reading an article; attached to the right upper corens is a small windows with my soc file in Wordpad, below that is a calculator set to the specific mode i require for the things I usually do (usually just the stardnad simp-e calc, but maybe I&#8217;d like anpother calc set to conversins; even smarted, the converter sets itself to the uinits most approp to the web page it is sticthed to (like, I&#8217;l reading a EU article, so the curreny conversion cponverter shows with EU as the input and CDN$, US$, and UK&#x1f4b7; (look at the emnoji usage!) justt to the right; even smarter: as ai hover over a EU value, the coverter shows the variopus conversions, with an easy to reference history like a pper readout; even bette: my eye tracker see what EU value I am looking at; even better: my BCI sees me looking at an EU vcale and does the lookup and returns the preferred values via BCI, like it just came from emomey.<\/li><li>antoehr example: a Fusion360 window with the McMaster-Carr lookup pinned to the right side, a calulator, and a notepad; can give 80% of the widtd to the Fusion360, then the 20% strip to the right has 3 or would bew ahndy to have thes stiched on windoww able to sorta maximxe as reuqired; for instance, if the ERP part invenoy lookup is stitched, a 2click on it will bring uip[ fiullhight, 40% or width, overlaying or pushing f360 disaly to accomdate. like folk alkread due this stuff, the key is by stitching them togethe this is so much easier.<\/li><li>i think this function, at least minimally, might be doable in a Chrome extension (at least for chrome insntaces&#8230; but can a chrome expention open a windows file explorer or calculator instance and stick it to the right side??? I do have Tab Resize v2.5.3, but it doesn&#8217;t allow anything but full screen splitsd. the cusomt layout doesn&#8217;t allow for liminting splits to a specific regaino of screen.<ul><li>but this reall y bnelons at the os window manager level.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>note how once again I see a graphics\/text dichotomy issue; I am typing these notes again; I first typed them into the various text inserts to the video. But like MSPaint, once that text is stemped onto the graphic it can&#8217;t be seelcted as text-proper, only as text-image. And you can&#8217;t paste text.image into this blog edits, or any other text.proper editor. 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