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RE: [WIN] Win32Lib tab items: programmatically select; and disable?

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Oct 07, 2001
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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).
----
Derek.