Tab buttons wrong

William Prothero prothero at earthednet.org
Wed Dec 10 09:47:35 EST 2014


What I meant to note is that in the various “Preferences” panels that have tabs, like the “Sounds” panel (I’m still on Mavericks), the currently selected tab (what I called the “active tab”) is dark and the unselected tabs are white, or lighter in color. Whereas on Safari (an Apple app also) and other applications like Firefox and Excel the tabs hilite the opposite. 

And, I guess I may be lumping the tabs in apps like Safari into the same category as the other tabbed interface that Mac uses, but silly me, they seem to perform the same functions so I marvel that the convention is opposite.

I’m not suggesting that Livecode respond to this in any way. I guess there could be an enhancement request, but the tabs do look different in the two situations, so…….

Regards,
Bill


On Dec 9, 2014, at 11:40 PM, Terence Heaford <t.heaford at btinternet.com> wrote:

> I am getting confused with "darker tab is the active one”.
> 
> In system preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver as an example.
> 
> If you click on the Screen Saver Tab:
> 
> 1. The text of the Screen Saver Tab is white and it’s background is blue.
> 2. The text of the Desktop Tab is black and it’s background is white.
> 
> If you place the system preferences behind another window then:
> 
> 1. The text of the Screen Saver Tab is black and it’s background is dark grey.
> 2. The text of the Desktop Tab is black and it’s background is white.
> 
> This is on Yosemite 10.10.1
> 
> There are no tab controls in the preferences of Safari.
> If you are referring to Safari’s tabs for web pages then they are not the same controls as the tabbed control that LiveCode are failing to implement correctly.
> 
> Tab controls in the preferences of Apple Mail work as above.
> 
> Tab controls in Xojo work as above.
> 
> Tab controls in the Date & Time System Preferences work as above.
> 
> Apple appear to be consistent to me.
> 
> 
> 
> All the best
> 
> Terry
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 10 Dec 2014, at 06:01, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> The tabs in the Systems Preferences work so the darker tab is the active one. Seems, with Safari at least, Apple is inconsistent.
> 
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