Windowed tabs suggestion for Winbox 3.1X

RouterOS General
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I have been using Winbox a lot and sometimes I want to see two tabs at the same time in the same Winbox session. To make this possible I a made a setup to spawn tabs to its own windows inside Winbox or even outside Winbox if that is feasible.

The rules for spawned tab-windows are simple:

  • spawned tab-windows can’t exist between sessions of Winbox, this to keep a ‘clean’ layout on entering Winbox (session save for re-usage)
    spawned tab-windows can are be closed, in Winbox session, by clicking on the tab in the original window (solves a lot of interfacing stuff at same time)
    when clicking on a tab to be spawned the next tab is displayed (round robin)
  • in windows with two tabs this leads to closing an eventually already earlier spawned tab if it exits in that windows
    in windows with three and more tabs the next tab is becoming visible (round robin)
    when the next tab(s) is/are already spawned, the next un-spawned tab is displayed
  • if there is no next un-spawned tab, then the next tab is displayed, and so closed that earlier spawned tab-window

I don’t know what options there are to activate a spawn tab and I suggest to add a “spawn button” in the bar below the tab(s) section. Displaying the button has to be manually activated in ‘Settings’ and default it is not activated. Position on the right of the find box.

Then, how to indicate that an tab is spawned…maybe to make the name of the tab white instead of black (invert).

I hope that there is support for this and that Mikrotik likes this setup so that I don’t have to open up several Winbox sessions at the same time as I have to do now.

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A pitty nobody seems to be interested in supporting my suggestion to increase the functionality of Wibox and not get swamped by open windows.

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Can you post a screenshot/mockup of what you propose?

I am not sure I understand what you mean when you say ‘tabs’. My first instinct is something like browser tabs, but what I read does not seem to be that type of tabs.

In other words I am confused :stuck_out_tongue: Maybe others too, that’s why you haven’t gotten any feedback.

Browser like tabs have been requested many times before but with no response (AFAIK) from MikroTik.

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If you go to IP Firewall in Winbox you see the tabs Filters, NAT, Mangle, RAW, etc. as example I want to look at the NAT tab and Connections at the same time. Now I have to open second session of Wibox to be able to arcieve this.

I will try to make visualization of my intention how it would look.

What you describe in your last line looks to me tabs in winbox with sessions/devices in tabs. I am describing tabs in one session.