OpenEuphoria

Re: LaunchPad -- Screen Shot (so far)

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 22, 2006
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don cole wrote:
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> Al Getz wrote:
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> > 
> > Hello again,
> > 
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> > Here's a screen shot as it is so far, including a view of the menu...
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> > <a
> > href="http://hometown.aol.com/xaxo/page10.html">http://hometown.aol.com/xaxo/page10.html</a>
> > 
> > Comments welcome.
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> > 
> > Al
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> > 
> > My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> > 
> 
> Yes Al,
> 
> Very nice.
> 
> How did you get the tabs different colors.
> 
> Or better yet how can I get the active tab a different color than the rest?
> 
> Don Cole

Hi Don,


To get the tab to change color using the Microsoft tab control 
that comes with Windows, i guess you would have to at least
use an Owner Drawn tab control style.
The route i went here was to do a complete *custom* tab control,
where you can do just about anything with it once you get at
least the framework completed.

If you can wait a little bit as soon as im done with the LaunchPad
verion (shown there in that link) i'll be glad to publish the
custom tab control for use with my WinClass library.
The tab control shown there is just about all you need anyway,
basically just populate the pages with something other than a 
hot tracking button control (anything you want i guess).
I used hot tracking buttons for the Launchpad because that's
what i wanted for that, but any controls can go on one of the
tab pages.  There's already code to allow tab editing (color,name)
so you dont have to do that either, and you can easily disable
it if you dont want to allow your users to do that sort of thing.
Also already part of the tab control is the menu shown, that
allows the user to 'jump' to a tab right away, even if there are
50 tabs, and scroll it into view.
It'll take a bit more to get it up to standard where you can
do anything with that as you can with any tab control, but
it shouldnt be too hard.
Also implemented is "Swap Two Tabs", but requires an application
restart right now...but that can be upgraded too.


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"

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"I can live with losing the good fight,
 but i can not live without fighting it".
"Well on second thought, maybe not."