Suggestion: Opening screens in new "tabs"

Hi. I was wondering today (not sure if this has been posted already) if a tab system would work in FM09. Much like Firefox/IE, you could open multiple pages (player profiles, club screens, whatever) at once and there'd be a tab dealy across the top.

It makes browsing t'internet much easier so I can only assume it would help with FM too.

Cheers

I do recall something like this being mentioned, yes. IIRC, it was discussed in the official topic for FM09 Ideas, which can be found here

I have thought about this before and think it would be really useful. It would make many things much more convenient like Ter has suggested.

Gets a from me.

Originally posted by LFC Lloydy:

I have thought about this before and think it would be really useful. It would make many things much more convenient like Ter has suggested.

Gets a from me.

Would be fantastic. For example when trying to figure out if potential coaches are better than your existing ones. Right now it's about 4 screens to get through just to do the comparison.

You have to think Ter is dropping hints here though.

I like the sound of this, quite often I find myself wanting to flick between two screens that are not easy to navigate between.

Originally posted by Ter:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">You have to think Ter is dropping hints here though.

Well I'm not. It's posts like that that discourage us posting at all </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ah...noted. Sorry about that.

Originally posted by Ter:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">You have to think Ter is dropping hints here though.

Well I'm not. It's posts like that that discourage us posting at all </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Is that what happened to Cleon in the GPTG?

She hasnt been there for ages, its getting a bit stupid TBH...

Yep. Gotta say I would definitely find that useful.

my idea is the idea of tabs. (sorry if this has been posted before!)

Quick photshop idea im talking about: (Had to put the picture in the post because link wouldnt work

i feel this would help especially when searching for players during transfer windows. i hate clicking on one player, then moving on to the next, then finding myself wanting to go back. takes an age. whereas this idea lets you move between players quickly and easy.

Sorry mate, the link's just taking me straight to the Photobucket home page so I can't see your ideas.

i found your image. yes, these tabs would help when searching players

http://photobucket.com/albums/e91/lawler_09/footballmanagertabs.jpg

The above link should work

Only so long as you can turn them off. I hate tabs. Plus, we'll get inundated with posts from people who get stuck in the game because they haven't noticed the tab for the screen they actually want and can't get off the screen they're on...

from me. Im used to these on Firefox and couldn't get on without them. Be very handy in FM, I just hope they look a little better than your image shows, lawler

Yup - this is a nice idea and would improve the game. Tabbing is the way forward tbh. I like it.

same as Neji, i'm used to this sort of thing with Opera so it would be really handy for FM.

Tabs is definitely a great idea

How much strain would these multiple tabs put on a machine set up with for example min specs?

Good point there carboreeta as if you were to open multipile tabs from a player search field etc. then you could find the game bogged down loading them all.

Hey, has it been confirmed that tabbed browsing has made its way into the FM series yet?

Not that I'm aware of.

I don't think it was going to be in FM09, but its definitely being talked about. Something that I'd love to have too.

Hopefully they will surprise us and announce it before the games release. But I doubt it. I'm sure it'll be added at some point though, because it could really improve the interface

I only hope that if it does ever make it that it will be optional as i hate tabbed browsing with a vengeance, call me a technophobe.

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I only hope that if it does ever make it that it will be optional as i hate tabbed browsing with a vengeance, call me a technophobe.

I too hate tabbed browsing and I'm not a technophobe, just not used to it.

I only hope that if it does ever make it that it will be optional as i hate tabbed browsing with a vengeance, call me a technophobe.

Same here, I still use IE6 because I hate IE7.

Tabbed browsing should always be optional.

It should be as simple as "click to open, ctrl_click to open in a new tab"

I couldn't live without my tabs now! I don't know how I ever coped!

Yeah I imagine it would be optional. Saying that, it has to be optional - you don't have to open new tabs if you don't want to; just like in our web browsers today.

Browsing the FM world while middle clicking to open new tabs and filtering through them I think would add to the already-easy navagation.

Not sure how it would be implemented though, what would happen if we hit continue while several tabs were open? Would they just automatically close? Seems fairly on the tricky side of things!

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I like the idea of this but I would imagine that there might be implications in terms of processing speed.

As processing speed is already a little bit of an ongoing issue with those of us paupers trying to run FM on low end spec machines I am not sure how realistic this is.

Rather than just be negative though, I like the idea, just as long as you don't have a NASA supercomputer to run the game on.

Maybe the answer is to make stuff like this "tickable" in the pre-game options to give everyone the option of taking advantage of stuff like this if they have the hardware available.

I like the idea of this but I would imagine that there might be implications in terms of processing speed.

As processing speed is already a little bit of an ongoing issue with those of us paupers trying to run FM on low end spec machines I am not sure how realistic this is.

Rather than just be negative though, I like the idea, just as long as you don't have a NASA supercomputer to run the game on.

Maybe the answer is to make stuff like this "tickable" in the pre-game options to give everyone the option of taking advantage of stuff like this if they have the hardware available.

I'm not sure why tabs would require much extra processing power. All it is doing is loading screens, just as you usually do, the only difference is they stay open while you look at another. If anything it would only use a bit more memory

Anyway about having a slow computer, it's not very fair to expect developers to keep going out of their way to keep making games run on ancient technology. At some point system requirements have to go up

But having said that, when possible the best compromise is to have an option where we can choose to use it or not, to make both sets of people happy

Tabbed browsing should always be optional.

Well it has to be, you either open one or you don't.

I'm not sure why tabs would require much extra processing power.

That's what i was thinking, can't be overly demanding surely.

As for tabbed browsing i'm all in favour of it, it would make things a whole lot easier and it could always be expanded on such as having in-match tabs so as well as having split screens with say the pitch and live scores you could have a tab open with the live league table etc.

As long as it's optional i would be happy, it's definitely not something i would use as i detest the things but can see why others would want them and you never know, i may just get used to them.

Tabs all the way, so useful in firefox!

Tabs are great.

Also: Hotkeys for bookmarks? Otherwise I'm never using bookmarks because its usually just as many clicks to nav to the bookmark as to just go there manually. Tabs would easily replace the current bookmark system, but books could be better too...

Would be awesome to have tabs