Another (different) UI question; bug in Win32Lib or no?
- Posted by Mike777 <anon4321 at g??il.com> Apr 16, 2008
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In the last few hours I've posted on attempting to access a group control through its label. I understand that is a no go. This is similar. What about a tab index? My experiments indicate that when one clicks on the tab page indicator (the little tab area at the top), the caption for that control gains focus (in the literal sense). For example, assuming there are 6 tab indexes (pages) on a single tab control, when one clicks on the caption of, say, page 4, you will see the caption for page 4 encased in a rectangular set of dots. One would expect that the return from the getFocus() function would be the control id of the tab page (the tab index). When I do that, instead the underlying tab control's ID is returned. At that point, I have no way of telling (do I?) that the 4th of 6 tabs was selected. Is this a bug in Win32Lib? If it isn't a bug, is there a way to tell what the tab index is of the page that truly has the focus, if the tab caption is selected (in the sense that the rectangular dots are visible on the screen)? I'm talking about testing from within a menu item routine, not from a command button, in case that matters. Thanks Mike