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Is there some progress or plans with the tabbed interface for Salamander?

Hello, @Jan Rysavy, you wrote: ... , next version will be feature release.

Please support tabbed panels. One of the most missed features in Altap Salamander.

Best regards,

Thomas

We will look at tabs, how difficult would it be to implement.

Thanks, waiting

I wonder if there are any recent plans regarding tabbed panels; last post on this topic is from 2016. I think many people would appreciate this feature.

Jirina wrote: 27 Jan 2020, 14:17 I wonder if there are any recent plans regarding tabbed panels; last post on this topic is from 2016. I think many people would appreciate this feature.

There are no developers currently working on Altap Salamander - there are NO plans for tabs. The Fine company has acquired the Altap Salamander with the development team. The AS was released as freeware due to this fact.

tukanos wrote: 28 Jan 2020, 08:44

Jirina wrote: 27 Jan 2020, 14:17 I wonder if there are any recent plans regarding tabbed panels; last post on this topic is from 2016. I think many people would appreciate this feature.

There are no developers currently working on Altap Salamander - there are NO plans for tabs. The Fine company has acquired the Altap Salamander with the development team. The AS was released as freeware due to this fact.

So does this mean this app is dead? I've been looking for a replacement for CubicExplorer for years. Nothing has come close to it. Except FileVoyager, but that also has issues. I was looking forward to using this until I found the lack of Tabs!

The search continues...

It is not dead, but suspended.

Hello guys,

I had some troubles with logging into my old account (I shouldn't use the ™ in nickname ), but here I am


I've been thinking lately that I would also like a similar feature.
At the same time, I wanted to try OpenAI Codex on a larger project and since Open Salamander is now open source - Long story short, I can present you the PoC version of Tabbed panels feature.

Screenshots from the early build:




Screen recording from my latest PoC version:
https://images.krtkovo.eu/salam/salamand_tabs2.gif


Over the last month, I’ve been gradually testing how complex tasks Codex from OpenAI can handle (I work as a QA tester and automation specialist by profession, programming is just a hobby), and I have to say I’ve been very surprised.

My actual contribution to the code itself is almost zero — all the changes were made by the AI. I handle intermediate steps with git, cherry-picking commits (because I run multiple Codex agents at once just to have multiple options in the code changes for comparing it with the original code base and Salamander documentation), merging and solving conflicts, specifying and refining the prompts for the Codex and verifying/approving the tasks and changes suggested by Codex and also checking Codex agents while running just to be sure the prompt was understood correctly.

The result is what you can see on the screenshots. The fact that the PoC was done quickly in few days within just few steps is:

• good documentation from the authors (https://www.altap.cz/salamander/help/) which helps me to understand the components and how to explain them to the Codex
• old legacy WinAPI application has really good structure: to analyse the code may be complex for humans, for AI it's understandable and somewhat like a routine job (yeah it consumes A LOT of computing power, it may do breaking changes when the prompt is not clear or when the original functionality is not understood correctly by the prompt author)
• it proved that the original concept from 1997 (and maintained since today) is built really well

If you're interested, test by yourself to help us catch all the bugs because the change is across all files (so it's huge) so it would be really surprising if there is no regression at all.

Here is a draft of pull-request to the original code base: https://github.com/OpenSalamander/salamander/pull/168
And here is my branch with the cherry-picked results from my work with Codex: https://github.com/KRtkovo-eu-AI/salama ... e/dev_tabs

Very nice,
https://github.com/KRtkovo-eu-AI/salamander/releases

screen - https://imgur.com/a/H1LRL6n

On my end, Win7, vcruntime140_1.dll was required
(which i copied from elsewhere, SeaMonkey 2.57a1 as it was, & threw that into the "Salamander" directory)

i take it that /Intermediate/ & /lang/Intermediate/ are not required for program operation?

much lighter, memory-wise
- granted, there are no Plugins

Yes, /Intermediate/ directories and it's content are not needed (I'm still learning the right flow of making these experimental releases).