Tabs too small for text with many fixtures

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mdmayfield
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I've been reading a bit into the Qt toolkit but am not quite to a point where I can find where to make a change to prevent this annoying situation:
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What I would prefer is for the minimum tab width to be set to maybe 180 pixels (non-HiDPI) or thereabouts, so that all fixture names will be legible even with dozens of fixtures present in a function, and scroll buttons or a scroll bar would appear to access tabs offscreen.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of where to look in the QLC+ source, or suggest a specific patch?

Thanks,

Matt
mdmayfield
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There's a potential fix with these two changes (messy GitHub usage; still learning...)

https://github.com/mdmayfield/qlcplus/c ... 11179810a8
https://github.com/mdmayfield/qlcplus/c ... e21df86ed1

For fixtures with very long names, it might make more sense to still use ElideMiddle but somehow set a minimum width for the tabs. I'm looking into that.
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Or you can use the non-tabbed view
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