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

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Oct 09, 2001
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Tony,

Thanks, that's an idea too, but if I can change the text color for just one
tab, I think I'll probably do that.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Steward" <tony at locksdownunder.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: [WIN] Win32Lib tab items: programmatically select; and disable?


>
> 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
> > > >
> > > >