Tabs in Theme Studio

Elements
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Hi, I just started a new project using Elements. While setting up the theme studio, I noticed it has tabs (menu, view, show tab bar). However, if you add a new tab, it seems to open e new project page in the theme studio. That seems counter-intuitive. Is that a bug or a feature?
Best, Matthias

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Oh that’s a bug. You can create new tabs in the main projects window, to create new projects, but you shouldn’t be able to do that in the Theme Studio :sweat_smile:

We’ll get that fixed!

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@dan Oh, wait, I thought that was a feature.

I use this all the time if I have two projects open I can open the theme studio in both of them. Their settings then appear in tabs within the studio making it a lot easier to compare settings from one project to another. Or to copy settings from one to another.

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No, there’s a bug where you can open a document in the theme projects window :grimacing:

However if you have multiple documents open, you can still have tabs in the theme studio, this is okay :ok_hand:

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It might be a stupid question but how do you add extra tabs to the Theme Studio?

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I think it’s because I have the “Prefer tabs when opening documents” option switched on in the System Preferences…

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Alternatively you can use the “Merge all Windows” option, this works for both documens and theme studio windows.

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That seems to work but I don’t get the ‘+’ at the end of the top one in Theme Inspector, or is that different to Theme Studio?
This is from your video;

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This is from my screen;

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It’s a macOS thing, so I’m not 100% sure on the settings… did you try restarting Elements?

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No, but I did notice you are suing a Pro license. Is that the issue as I am on Plus?

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No, it’s a macOS thing. Will dig into it later and find out what macOS setting to enable to get the + icon.

A quick google will probably give you the answer!