1. RE: [WIN] Win32Lib tab items: programmatically select; and disable?
Dan Moyer wrote:
>
> There's no pressing need for disabling a tabitem, I just made the
> controls
> in it invisible when they're empty; I wanted to make it easier/quicker
> for
> the user to know when there wasn't anything in a tabitem which had
> content,
> and when there was, so they'd know at a glance whether to click on one
> or
> not. Might be useful, though.
Dan,
it might be better to disable the controls rather than hide them. That
way the user can at least see what controls might be possible later.
Also, you might like to give a visual clue by changing the text of the
tab item , for example place square brackets around them text when it is
"disabled". Possibly even changing the text color to
getSysColor(COLOR_GRAYTEXT).
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Derek.
2. RE: [WIN] Win32Lib tab items: programmatically select; and disable?
Hi Dan,
Just an idea, Rename a tab with a preceding * if that tab contains info.
This way users will know at a glance that a tab has info on it.
Regards
Tony Steward
Dan Moyer wrote:
> Derek,
>
> Don't know why I didn't even think of and try setFocus, thanks.
>
> There's no pressing need for disabling a tabitem, I just made the
> controls
> in it invisible when they're empty; I wanted to make it easier/quicker
> for
> the user to know when there wasn't anything in a tabitem which had
> content,
> and when there was, so they'd know at a glance whether to click on one
> or
> not. Might be useful, though.
>
> Dan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 7:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [WIN] Win32Lib tab items: programmatically select; and
> disable?
>
>
> > Hi Dan,
> > use setFocus() to select a specific tab item.
> >
> > The standard Windows tab control does not support disabling a given tab
> > item. Your best bet would be to create a sequence that contains all the
> IDs
> > for the controls in each tab item and then use setEnabled(tabitemseq,
> > False). This would still allow people to click on the tab item, but all
> the
> > controls in there would be gray.
> >
> > In a way, this is analagous to having a menu selectable but all its menu
> > items disabled.
> >
> > If there is a pressing need to really disable a tab item, I'll work on a
> way
> > to do that in future.
> >
> > ----
> > Derek.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Moyer" <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 11:40 AM
> > Subject: [WIN] Win32Lib tab items: programmatically select; and disable?
> >
> >
> > > In Win32Lib, is there any way to programmatically select a tab item?
> > >
> > > And is there a way to "disable" a specified tab item, so as to make its
> > > title "gray out"? When I try, it disables the whole tabcontrol (so
> *no*
> > > tab items at all work), not just the specified tabitem, and doesn't
> change
> > > the tab title(s) appearance. Works similarly for setVisible: set a
> > tabitem
> > > to invisible, and the whole tabcontrol disappears.
> > >
> > > Dan Moyer
> > >
> > >
3. RE: [WIN] Win32Lib tab items: programmatically select; and disable?
Dan Moyer wrote:
> Derek,
>
> setText doesn't seem to work for tab text; is that the wrong way to put
> new
> text onto a tabitem?
>
> And setTextColor only seems to work for wPuts, which writes onto a
> tabItem,
> but not correctly (doesn't erase existing text).
Okay, I'll have a closer look at how to do this. Stand by...
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Still standing? Well this may take awhile so have a seat 
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Derek
