Jack,

Would it be possible/(not too difficult) to make the ATE swap key open another ATE window with the same profile if there is only one instance open?

Thanks,
John Andreasen

I'm impressed that you even know about this obscure feature - I can't even find it in the documentation! And I'm not even sure I remember how it works. (I vaguely recall some scheme to re-purpose the PolyShell swap key to tell ATE to switch between multiple client-side sessions, but can't remember the precise details, other than that Control-Tab is also supposed to do nearly the same thing. (I think the former skipped minimized windows while the latter doesn't.)

I guess I see no technical reason why ATE couldn't launch a new session on the Control-Tab (or other) swap key if there were no other sessions to swap to. But considering that it may take a few seconds for that to occur, there might be some user-experience downsides or complications to that happening in a context where it might be easy to do it accidentally.

Before deciding if this is really a good idea, you may want to review Launching another ATE from ATE, in which another developer toyed with various approaches and seemed to have settled on a menu option to do so. But I'm not sure anyone even considered just making it an extension of the Control-Tab swap key.

OK, thanks Jack. I can't even remember how I happened on to knowing about that feature (it may have been a complete accident by hitting the "`" key when I first started working here.) We are considering getting rid of PolyShell as we move to a more GUI driven system. I was thinking that some mechanism like this would help users tolerate the change. Let me do some looking at that thread. Perhaps adding a menu option would be a good approach for us to take.