A bit of a major interface suggestion, but it would be nice if there was a way to detach tabs from one another and the parent window in order to see more at the same time. My second monitor is a bit wasted unless I use a new instance of SQLyog which isn't a problem except sometimes they don't update together.

This request is what I know as 'undocking'.

I think the developement environment that we use do not allow for it. SQLyog is pure WIN32 API C++ programming.

We want to
* stick to C/C++ to avoid wrapper code when connecting to MySQL
* stick to the API (and no WFC for instance) for several reasons (performance, compactness and Wine/Linux compability).
* and VB, Delphi, JAVA and whatever depends on 3rd party runtimes/virtual machines is out of question here. In the very long term it is not impossible that C#/Mono will find its way into SQLyog. But that is also all I can imagine!

Anyway .. any other common program that you can refer to? (I know 'Chessbase' myself that can dock/undock panes in every user defined position - but that is a reather special program).

How about Office or any of the VS C++ dev environments? Although I think they're written in .NET now, they didn't used to be. Then of course we have email applications and the like... Two options may make this work:

1) the ability to allow tabs their own windows within the parent.
2) the ability to allow child windows to become non-modal and floating (I think that's what you call it). Like the editors can float, but without blocking the parent or other windows.

Of course I have no idea how this wold affect the underlying workings of the app.

1)
Actually if you have more query tabs each has it's own set of result (and messages) tabs. Try this:

Open two query tabs. In the first execute



in the second execute



now switch between the two query tabs .. If that was not what 1st point was about I do not understand!


2)
You request that a query tab with all its children can be undocked (using my term) and even positioning on another monitor?


3)
We are considering modality (for CREATE/ALTER table, wizards etc). It is a major code change and it wil take some time but it is also a prerequisite for reziability what we realise that we need to solve to support both small and large monitor resolutions properly.

1) it's actually the "switching" that's the issue. And it's not just with query tabs - to take a current example, right now I want to see a query tab and schema designer tab at the same time - and can only do this with two copies of SQLyog open.

2) For maximum flexibility that would be pretty cool (if possibly a bit confusing )

3) Yeh, I don't mean to suggest it's just a switch you can flick. At the moment I just find it difficult to see as much as I'd like to!

Thanks!