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2. Re: activateTabItems()?

• Posted by Euman <euman at BELLSOUTH.NET> Dec 12, 2000
• 534 views

Derek
I suppose in all the madness I had stuck setFocus in the wrong place
which led me to believe that wouldnt work either but in light of your
responce I thought about it again and yes setFocus worked
I have an onClose for the ChildWin that got in the way.

Thanks Derek, I truly appreciate it.
euman at bellsouth.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Derek Parnell <derekp at SOLACE.COM.AU>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: activateTabItems()?


> Hi Euman,
>
> >If I have a TabControl with several TabItems and my user
> >selects TabItem[x]  and closes the Child Window then later
> >opens the Child Window the default TabItem has the Controls
> >of TabItems[1]  yet the Tab Selected button appears to be
> >always the TabItem Last selected when the Child Window was
> >closed first.
> >
> >activateTabItem() doesn't work.
> >
> >Any Suggestions other than RTFM?
>
> I've just fininished rewriting activeTabItems() this afternoon. There were
a
> number of problems with it that now seem to have been cleared up. It now
> correctly displays the controls in the tabitem, and even allows nested
> tabcontrols. However, the problem you have found is due to openWindow()
> having hardcoded the display of the first tabitem rather than the current
> tabitem. When win32LIb closes a window, it actually just hides it, thus
> anything that Windows manages for the window is still active - like which
is
> the current tabitem. I'll change openWindow() to display the current
> tabitem.
>
> In the mean time you can use setFocus() on the tabitem you want displayed
> when the window opens.
>
> eg.
>
>     closeWindow(ChildWindow)
>     .
>     .
>     .
>     -- Force the tabitem called 'tab2' to display next.
>     setFocus(tab2)
>     -- Open the window.
>     openWindow(ChildWindow)
>
>
> -----
> cheers,
> Derek Parnell
>