Tabbed Buttons & Cards Question

[Jim Biancolo]

Howdy Sarah,

With regard to your first suggestion, would that separate "navigation 
palette" be in a separate window from my "data" stacks?  That would 
certainly fit the bill for making it global, although it's a pretty unusual 
UI on the Windows platform (at least for non-IDE UIs).  I'll have to 
consider that.

As for your second suggestion, I think that could work, but see my reply to 
Jeanne.  I think (although I'm not sure) that it simplifies the navigation 
around the "many" tab to have that be a separate stack.  I'd also have to 
set the backgroundBehavior of my "tabs" so they appeared on all the cards, 
and then set the backgroundBehavior of my data entry controls for the 
"many" tab so they appear on each new card in that tab.  I'm not sure I can 
do that.

Thanks for the feedback!  I've gotten good information out of this thread.

Take care,

Jim

At 08:47 AM 4/22/2003 +1000, Sarah wrote:
>Hi Jim,
>
>Here are a couple of ideas:
>You could make the navigation tabs into a separate palette so that they 
>were always visible no matter what stack you had open.
>OR
>You could use different cards in the same stack instead of different 
>stacks. Then if you group your tabbed button and set it's 
>backgroundBehavior to true, it can be placed on all the cards in that stack.
>
>Cheers,
>Sarah
>sarahr at genesearch.com.au
>http://www.troz.net/Rev/
>
>
>On Saturday, April 19, 2003, at 03:50  am, Jim Biancolo wrote:
>
>>Hi again folks,
>>
>>I've been playing with this more, and I'm still a bit stumped.  I thought 
>>the answer might be to have a stack ("ParentStack") that contains my 
>>tabbed buttons, and then whenever the user clicks a tab this code fires 
>>(the substacks have the same name as the tabs):
>>
>>   go stack currItem in window "ParentStack"
>>
>>So if the user clicks "Tab 1" a substack named "Tab 1" is loaded.
>>This kinda works, except the "Tab 1" substack completely replaces 
>>"ParentStack."  This is not a surprise, but the undesired effect is that 
>>the tabbed buttons are now hidden from the user (since they are on 
>>"ParentStack", not the "Tab 1" stack).
>>
>> From my prototyping so far it looks like I could make this work by 
>> copying the tabbed buttons onto each stack, but this seems inefficient 
>> to me and a bit of a maintenance headache.  Is there a way to have all 
>> the stacks "share" the tabbed button navigation element I want to use?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>At 08:13 PM 4/17/2003 -0400, Jim Biancolo wrote:
>>>Hi folks,
>>>
>>>I could use some help figuring this out:
>>>
>>>I'd like to create an interface with two tabbed buttons.  Clicking Tab A 
>>>should bring up a data entry form where the user can create multiple 
>>>records (I've prototyped this using the backgroundBehavior such that 
>>>each "record" is a card) .  Clicking Tab B should bring up a different 
>>>data entry form where the user can create a single record.  The thing 
>>>that I can't figure out is how to have a "many cards" group in one tab, 
>>>and a "single card" group on another tab.
>>>Is such a thing possible?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>>Jim
>>>
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