has anyone built a splittable tab application?

[shi-yan]

I'm wondering if you have seen any splittable tab applications built using tauri? I want to know if it is possible to do this.

examples of splittable tab applications are chrome and sublime text where you can drag to split a tab into a new window. and use dropping to merge two separate windows into one.

I understand tauri supports multi-window apps. but I don't know if the drag-and-drop part is easy to implement.

[FabianLars]

Sooo, i can't give any examples here, just a heads-up: Tauri does not support multiple webviews inside the same window, so all that tabbing mechanism would be html/js only (which may make it easier for you to google stuff?)

[shi-yan]

Thank you. I looked at Tauri's drag and drop functions. While it can detect a drop event initiated from a different window, it doesn't seem to carry a payload. Also, it doesn't seem to give me the coordinate of where the drop event happened.

[FabianLars]

At least with the coordinates you should have more luck by disabling tauri's custom file drop by setting "fileDropEnabled": false and using the browser's native drag-drop apis. That likely won't help moving data from one tauri window from another but at least the coordinates should be right. Maybe you can use the drag/drop apis then to use tauri's event system to send the data around.

[pavi2410]

Spacedrive has support for tabs. Looks like it's built using React in userland. https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/blob/d79f5046d5a452f04975a38a7be9a7dd4a45ea2d/apps/desktop/src/App.tsx#L218

[lukigarazus]

@FabianLars and now that Tauri v2 has experimental support for multiple Webviews inside a single Window?

[xuchaoqian]

@FabianLars and now that Tauri v2 has experimental support for multiple Webviews inside a single Window?

Yes, check this API: add_child