Is it possible to show 2 folders on folder tab?

[chuckliu]

I have many projects and they have the same folder layout like:
prj1/src, prj1/test, prj2/src, prj2/test
Now on TC, I have a lot of "src", "test" tabs, it's really time consuming to locate the right tab.
So is it possible to include parent folder in the tab name like "prj1/src", "prj2/src"?

[nsp]

(IIRC) There is no field or function to set tab name template globally.

If you want, you can rename the tab manually as you want right click on a tab and chose rename/lock this tab. You can then save all the tab to a tab file using SAVETABS <filename> and reload using LOADTABS <filename>. You will see attribute x_caption with tab name.

Another workaround, is to create junction pointing to src with dedicated name prjx-src.

[chuckliu]

(IIRC) There is no field or function to set tab name template globally.

If you want, you can rename the tab manually as you want right click on a tab and chose rename/lock this tab. You can then save all the tab to a tab file using SAVETABS <filename> and reload using LOADTABS <filename>. You will see attribute x_caption with tab name.

Another workaround, is to create junction pointing to src with dedicated name prjx-src.

There are more than 30 projects
Every project has 5 folders.
I cannot rename/lock 150 tabs.

[nsp]

There are more than 30 projects
Every project has 5 folders.
I cannot rename/lock 150 tabs.

So currently without some tooling making junctions or generating tab files it is a painful task.

You should ask for dedicated command to set tab caption with parameters or ability to set tab caption schemes.

[klsgfx]

There are more than 30 projects
Every project has 5 folders.
I cannot rename/lock 150 tabs.

So currently without some tooling making junctions or generating tab files it is a painful task.

You should ask for dedicated command to set tab caption with parameters or ability to set tab caption schemes.

What about that workaround:
Save the tabs to a file with SAVETABS (as proposed by nsp) and then edit that file to insert 0_captition=, 1_caption=, etc... and change the name there from eg. tmp to c_win_tmp or so. Shouldn't be too much work with a good text editor and perhaps some RegEx or search and replace.
Then load this file via LOADTABS.

[NotNull]

And another workaround: use colour-coding for tabs, so that all prj1 related folders are green, prj2 folders are blue, etc:

Example for prj1
- Menu:Show > Custom View modes > Configure View modes
- Add "prj 1 folders"
- Tab Color = green
- In that same configuration dialog, select Auto Switch Mode from the left pane
- Add: Must match; Directory = *\prj1\* (or c:\folder\prj1\* or whatever is your situation)
- Set this mode = "prj 1 folders"
- OK button


Now, when you enter the prj1 folder, the tab will become green. When you enter prj1\test, the tab will also be green.
So you can now simply look for a green tab with the text "test" to find c:\folder\prj1\test

There are about 15 different Tab colours to choose from in the GUI; I suspect you can create more when you edit the ini-file manually.