Opting in or out of Windows AutoTabbing

macOS adopted an interesting behaviour some time ago where when you opened a new window in an application. It would default to opening a new tab in the window instead of opening a new window.

If your application could not deal with this and the user had the preference in System Preferences > Dock > Prefer Tabs when opening documents set to Always then it could cause your app issues.

You can opt out of this behaviour in your app’s open event.

Public Sub AppAutoTabbing(optIn as boolean)
  #if not TargetMacOS
    #pragma unused optIn
  #endif
  
  #if TargetMacOS
    
    Declare Function NSClassFromString Lib "Cocoa" (name As CFStringRef) As Ptr
Dim nsWindowClass As ptr = NSClassFromString( "NSWindow" ) 

if nsWindowClass = nil then
  // msgbox CurrentMethodName + " nsWindowClass is Nil"
  break
  return
end if

declare sub EnableTabGrouping lib "AppKit"selector "setAllowsAutomaticWindowTabbing:" ( classPtr as Ptr , enableDisable as Boolean ) 

EnableTabGrouping( nsWindowClass, optIn )
    
  #endif
  
End Sub