Hello,
I often have many sketches open simultaneously in the IDE. A "sketches" or "windows" menu displaying all the currently opened sketches and allowing one to choose which sketch to put on top would be really helpful.
Thanks for considering the suggestion.
Long live Arduino!
Am I the only one to have multiple sketches simultaneously open in the IDE? :o
Your task bar provides this doesn't it?
The issue is that all the different sketches are open in separate windows. One incarnation of the IDE can't really be expected to know about the others. Windows (or whatever OS) is in charge of that. Hence using the taskbar is the way to see it. If you're using windows, the answer is right at the bottom of your screen.
I feel strongly enough about this that I at least wanted to make an account to second Amundsen's request.
Every other bit of software I'm running right now (XCode, Excel, Firefox, Mac Terminal.app, etc, etc..) have a 'Windows' menu so you can manage multiple files in one instance of the application. I have 10 sketches open and there is no way to manage them from within the Arduino IDE application. There only appears to be one instance of Arduino.app running according to my process list, so is this really an issue of 'multiple instances of the IDE can't be expected to know about each other'?
I understand these sketch windows can be managed at an OS level by the taskbar/dock, but it appears to be very common practice to allow this within the application itself as well.