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this is a question about using the option "close all but this" OUTSIDE of a project workspace.
i have a collection of fortran 90/95 files (.f90). they are part of a project i'm working on (i.e. they are contained in a project workspace).
using Microsoft Visual Studio, there are two ways that i can edit/modify each .f90 file :-
1) INSIDE their project workspace (i.e. the project workspace is open/active)
2) OUTSIDE their project workspace (i.e. the project workspace is closed, and only the individual .f90 files are open)
consider option (2). without opening the project workspace, i can individually open up one or more of these files, and edit/modify them (using Microsoft Visual Studio). when this happens, there is a 'tab' at the top of each file -- it displays the name of each file. for example, file_1.f90, file_2.f90, file_3.f90, etc.
let's say i've got 5 such files open. when i've finished working on, say, file_4.f90, and i want to close only that file, i can do so by right-clicking the mouse on the 'tab', and selecting the option "close". the file does indeed close.
but, if instead of closing only that one file (file_4.f90), i want to instead close all but that one file. i again right-click the mouse on the 'tab', but this time i select the option "close all but this" (which appears to be available -- because, like the option "close", it isn't greyed out). but nothing happens -- all of the files still remain open.
this seems to happen only if i'm editing/modifying the files OUTSIDE of their project workspace. in other words, if i'm editing/modifying the files INSIDE their project workspace (i.e. while their project workspace is open/active), then the option "close all but this" DOES close all but that one file.
is that how it's supposed to happen ? it seems a bit strange that the option "close" DOES work (OUTSIDE of a project workspace), but the option "close all but this" DOESN'T work (OUTSIDE of a project workspace).
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Click (deselect all, select this)
Ctrl-Click (add toor remove from selection)
Ctrl-Shift-Click (add or remove list of files from last selection)
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THANKS -- your 'workaround' DOES work.
but, back to my original question :-
QUESTION 1
why is it that "close" DOES work (OUTSIDE of a project workspace), but "close all but this" DOESN'T work ?
also, another question to complement QUESTION 1.
note: in QUESTION 2 below, the term :-
a) "ISN'T greyed out" means that, when i right-click the mouse on the 'tab' at the top of each file, the desired option appears to be AVAILABLE
b) "IS greyed out" means that, when i right-click the mouse on the 'tab' at the top of each file, the desired option appears to be UNAVAILABLE
QUESTION 2
when editing/modifying files OUTSIDE of their project workspace (i.e. the project workspace is closed, and only the individual .f90 files are open) :-
1) when there is ONE OR MORE files open, then :-
a) "close" DOES work -- and "close" ISN'T greyed out
2) when there is ONLY ONE file open, then :-
a) "close" DOES work, but "close all but this" DOESN'T work -- and "close all but this" IS greyed out
3) when there is MORE THAN ONE file open, then :-
a) "close" DOES work, but "close all but this" DOESN'T work -- but "close all but this" ISN'T greyed out
My question is: in (3a),shouldn't "close all but this"be greyed out ?- Mark as New
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in case it helps, here are two screenshots :-
SCREENSHOT 1 -- close all but this IS greyed out.jpg
SCREENSHOT 2 -- close all but this ISN'T greyed out.jpg
oh, and in case anyone is wondering, i've deliberately made the screen background colour GREEN -- because i was advised (years ago) that thatcolour reduces the amount of glare (and, hence, eye-strain) that can occur when the screen background colour is instead WHITE
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i've followed the INSTRUCTIONS for "Attaching or Including Files in a Post". but, as you can see, i'm having difficulty including those screenshots (i said i'm only a beginner!) -- i can't see them, or download them.
so, before i AGAIN attempt to include them, could anyone answer the following questions about this :-
1) can the name of the file (or folder that contains it) contain spaces ? if not, then can it contain underscores ? the ones i tried to attach contained spaces
2) can the files be JPEG's (.jpg) ? if not, then what kind of file must they be ? the ones i tried to attach were JPEG's
3) in step 4 on the INSTRUCTIONS page, it says that, after uploading a file, "You will be shown a screen that contains a URL for the file - you can use this URL in a link in your text". Do i have to copy/paste that URL into my post myself ?
any help would be appreciated.
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hi steve
thanks for your reply.
about including pics in posts.
because of other commitments, i'm not doing my fortran programming (research) full-time -- it's more of a "part-time" thing. actually, sometimes i can be away from my computer for literally days at a time. because of this, i haven't had a good chance to sit down and work out why i can't include these pics in this post (either as attached files, or within the text itself).
anyway, until i CAN work out why it's not working (i.e. what i'm doing wrong), i was wondering if it would be possible for me to email YOU the 2 pics (2 JPEG's, no more than 188kb each), so that you could include the pics in this post "on my behalf"? i could give you MY email address (so you wouldn't have to display YOUR email address in this forum). maybe in a "private post". but, if you'd rather not do it that way, then that's ok.
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