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[ahamid]

Altair is my go-to GraphQL client, thanks for this tool.

#519 was closed as stale. I'd like to resurrect this request. I work with a lot of environments. My tab list will soon be horizontally longer than both my monitors, and i have to regularly resize my window horizontally all the way just to get to environments at the end. Could a small icon with menu be added (if not dedicated management/list dialog)? Or maybe a context menu item that allows menu navigation as an alternative?

Is there an alternative way to manage environments? I just need separate URL endpoints.

Thanks

[victorbrambati]

Yes, for me in Altair extension it just accept 15 tabs, I need create more tabs because I want to get the information of old tabs to use in a new tab in another day.

[victorbrambati]

But in your case you can click with the scroll button and drag the mouse for the right. It work better on Windows, on Linux you need use Firefox Browser and activate the option Use autoscrolling on settings.

[imolorhe]

@victorbrambati we intentionally limit the number of windows you can use in the browser extensions since they have much more limited storage space. We can increase the limit but I think that will do more harm than good. i.e. if you use up your storage, you run the risk of losing data as Altair has no more space to store new changes.

[imolorhe]

@ahamid Regarding managing environments, can't you use the environments provided in Altair for this purpose? It allows you set variables that you can switch in different environments. So in your case, you can easily have an endpoint environment variable that you use, and then you can switch between them by changing the current environment

[victorbrambati]

@victorbrambati we intentionally limit the number of windows you can use in the browser extensions since they have much more limited storage space. We can increase the limit but I think that will do more harm than good. i.e. if you use up your storage, you run the risk of losing data as Altair has no more space to store new changes.

But it will be better to show a message that it's harm, but let it at config options to define how many do you want open.

[imolorhe]

Fair point. We can make it a configurable option in the settings. The solution is also quite easy. Feel free to create a separate issue for this, so we can focus on the original question of this issue here.

[ahamid]

@ahamid Regarding managing environments, can't you use the environments provided in Altair for this purpose? It allows you set variables that you can switch in different environments. So in your case, you can easily have an endpoint environment variable that you use, and then you can switch between them by changing the current environment

Actually you are totally right, I entirely missed this functionality, and it serves my purposes. Thanks for pointing it out! (this issue can be closed for my sake)

[imolorhe]

You can now enable scrollbar in the tab list