arduino / arduino/Arduino

Add Window menu that lists open sketch windows [imported]

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Component: IDE Component: IDE user interface feature request
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Description

This is [Issue 234](http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=234) moved from a Google Code project.
Added by 2010-04-26T13:54:46.000Z by [follower@gmail.com](http://code.google.com/u/follower@gmail.com/).
Please review that bug for more context and additional comments, but update this bug.

Original labels: Type-Enhancement, Priority-Medium
### Original description

**What change would like to see?**

I would like a "Window" menu added to the menu bar.

**Why?**

Now that we can have multiple sketches open at one time this would make it easier to swap
between them instead of cycling through the windows one-by-one.

Would this cause any incompatibilities with previous versions?

No.

But this is mostly an issue when you have many sketches open which may be considered a non-
typical user scenario. However the "Window" menu is relatively common in desktop applications.

If so, how can these be mitigated?

N/A

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Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Review the linked Google Code Issue 234 and its additional comments first, since the imported description says they contain more context. Then inspect the Arduino IDE 1.x desktop UI entry points for menus and open sketch windows. Done means an added Window menu lets users switch directly among open sketches without cycling through them.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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