Disabling a tab

[Phil Davis]

Hi Pete,

As usual in Livecode, there are multiple ways to disable a tab. If you want to 
manipulate the button text directly, you can put "(" before the line of button 
text for the tab you want to disable. Or to enable all tabs, replace "(" with 
empty in text of btn 1.

Best -
Phil


On 4/1/12 1:45 PM, Pete wrote:
> Thanks Marty. Sometimes the obvious just slips by me!
> Pete
>
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Marty Knapp<martyknapp at comcast.net>  wrote:
>
>> Hey Pete,
>> Using "disable menuItem 2 of btn "Tab Menu" seems to work.
>>
>> Marty Knapp
>>
>>   I have a tab control and I'm using the method of revealing data on each
>>> tab
>>> by having groups with the same name as each tab which are hidden/shown
>>> when
>>> a tab is clicked.
>>>
>>> Depending on data conditions, I need to disable one of the tabs, meaning
>>> that clicking ion it has no effect.  Right now, I'm doing this in a
>>> selectionChanged handler that checks the data condition, beeps if the use
>>> clicks on a disallowed tab, and leaves the original tab/group displayed.
>>>
>>> That works OK but there is no visual indication that the tab is not
>>> available.  Ideally, I'd like the text in the tab heading to be greyed
>>> out,
>>> kinda like a disabled menu item.  Any ideas how to do that?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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