Feature Request - Separate groups

[kbni]

This is a great tool. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to it. I have been using this since returning to Eve, and it has made things so much easier. Very cool!

I do have a minor feature request though: The ability to have "Hide preview of active EVE client" to work for groups of clients, for use cases such as below:

My current setup is to run two clients on display_1 and two clients on display_2, with 4 separate preview windows along the bottom of display_3. This is very cool, but these previews are very small and it's not possible to make out any small text (such as what's on the overview):

What I would like to do is only have two preview windows on display_3, showing only the preview for the Eve client that is not currently active out of that group. These would effectively be 1080 previews, and it would be very easy to read the small text.

Some ideas on how this could be acheived (that I am proposing whilst being almost completely ignorant as to whether or not any of this would be practical at all):

• Add "groups", when activating a client within a group, other clients within that group are hidden/minimised
• Track the position of all Eve clients, and consider an eve client that is above other Eve clients as active - and clients below other clients inactive.
• Possibly the "group" function could be achieved by launching separate instances of the preview app (currently not possible?)

Again, thanks for all the work on this tool. And thanks for checking out my Feature Request! Feel free to convo me in-game for more info (Stacy Hart).

[feyyd]

Hi there, you could mostly get there by using the "Unique layout for each EVE client" option.

Lets say we have your Display 1 clients - D11 and D12. Display 2 clients we'll call D21 and D22

When you have D11 selected you show D12 in your D3 Left side, and vice versa
When you have D21 selected you show D22 in your D3 Right side, and vice versa

The one issue you would have would be that you the opposite display you would have to choose
a default layout to display when you are on your D1/D2 clients.

Lets say you have D11 selected. D12 would be in preview correctly on D3. Then you would have a fullscreen EVE-O Preview window on D2, and the opposite client on D32.

This would get you ~90% there though, after all 4 clients are setup. The one issue would be that when you select back and forth between your D1/D2 clients, 50% of the time it would swap the order on the opposite side because it would always revert to your Unique layout of the D1 or D2 client.

Maybe this is good enough for now though!