OpenEuphoria

Re: Looking for Ideas for Tab Control

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 18, 2006
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Antonio Alessi wrote:
> 
> Al Getz wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I see what you mean about the popup menu being not able to handle
> > as many 'tab names' as there could be for something, but i think
> > a tab control is really meant for a smaller number of items and
> > if there is going to be the possibility of a huge number of items
> > then a tree view is probably a better bet.
> > 
> > As far as a tab control that houses other tab controls, that in turn
> > house more sub tab controls, i dont see a problem with this really,
> > except again the navigation still wouldnt be that simple, and the
> > number of items per tab window would still be limited.
> > I was thinking maybe a 'pager' control on a tab page, so the user
> > can scroll items on the tab page...and this would increase the number
> > of items possible on a single page, but then again there's that extra
> > scrolling that makes the navigation more difficult.
> > 
> > I didnt want to get into a tree view either, where the right pane
> > is the tab control (number n of m total), but sometimes the total
> > number of items that need to be housed will just be too high for
> > a tab control, as well as the number of tabs needed might be too
> > high.  Tab controls are a rather graphic space expensive control.
> > 
> > I like don's idea too about having tabs on the bottom.
> > Maybe on the bottom AND on the top?  That would make room for
> > more tabs without going to a second row.  I guess either way
> > though the tabs eat up graphic real estate.
> > 
> >  
> > Al
> > 
> 
> HI Al,
> 
> top tabs or botom tabs may be a question of preferences, but I think that 
> having tabs on the bottom and on the top, rather than easy makes more 
> difficult the search every time having to choose from where to start, 
> unless the user can decide where to put every caption..
> 
> I didn't think more than two tabs levels were needed to handle loaded files,
> as a fair compromise; while a popup menu should always be powered, 
> 'cause to feel satisfied with ease is "a weapon with a double cut" ;)
> I did it in my routine and it is not so difficult to filter files.
> 
> but you probably do not refer only to that tabbing; 
> in such case however, a tree drives over my horizon.
> 
> We could rather discuss of a left or right column of buttons (tabs), that 
> can be scrolled with more advantage, with less space consumption respect to
> 
> the horizontal tabs distribution: just for that reason I kept for years
> the Windows main toolbar to the left of the screen instead of to the bottom:
> it can hold 20 running programs + 22 quick launch icons + 6 icons into the 
> systray: more than two times the horizontal mode, and since the vertical 
> space is always more critical than horizontal, all the sizable windows are 
> advantaged. "More available space" and more buttons. I could not change.
> 
> To me, vertical is better.
> 
> antonio

Hi Antonio,

Yeah maybe tabs on top AND bottom might be a bit too much.
As far as fitting more 'filenames' in your app, perhaps you
can go to two lines of tabs?  That's just a matter of changing
style, although i dont want to do that with my app...i want
single tab line only.
I like the idea of having them stack vertically instead of horz.
That might work out nice too.  The text will fit nicer too and
yeah, many more buttons can fit on the same control when they
are on the side because the tab buttons dont have to be that
high.  Im going to have to make this style too...just sounds 
too good to pass by 



Take care,
Al

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