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

• Posted by Tony Steward <tony at locksdownunder.com> Oct 08, 2001
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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
> > >
> > >