Tabs

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 4 Mar 2004, at 7:08 am, Lynne Deese wrote:

> I must be missing something but I am unable to get the tab feature 
> working.
> Is there a detailed tutorial anywhere for the newbie??
>
Tabs are just a specialized form of button. To get them to work, you 
need to add some scripting. When a new tab is clicked, a menuPick 
handler is sent with 2 parameters: the new tab and the old tab i.e. the 
tab that was selected before the click.

Once you have this information, you can do what you like with it :-)
The commonest uses are to go to a different card or to show/hide groups.

For cards, make the Tab button a group and set it's background behavior 
to true so that it appears in all new cards. Make your various cards, 
name them and set the tabs to the names of the cards. Then your 
menuPick can just "go to card" using the first parameter.

For groups, make your various groups and hide them. Set the tabs to the 
names of the groups, then in the menuPick handler, hide the old group 
and show the new one.

If you need to set the tab to a particular entry, you can set the 
menuHistory to a number, where the number is the number of the tab. 
This also sends a menuPick.

If this isn't clear, I can send you an example stack.

Cheers,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/