Tabbed buttons

[Richard Gaskin]

Stephen Messimer wrote:
> Does anybody know a way to make a new row of tabs in a tabbed button? 
> Sometimes I have a button that needs to be a specific width but that 
> width isn't long enough to accommodate all the tabs.  In both the Mac 
> and Windows OSs one sees examples of tabbed windows with more than one 
> row. Is this possible to do using the tabbed button? If not is there a 
> work around for this?

There's an article at either useit.com or uie.com on why multi-row tabs 
are problematic.  I don't have the URL handy, but in any event there's 
nothing built-in to accomodate them in Rev.

Maybe a better solution (Microsoft, are you listening?) is to have a 
list on the left of your window which opens appropriate panels as items 
are selected.  All platforms use this convention (even Microsoft now and 
then) so it won't be off-putting to users, is easy to implement, and it 
gives you greater flexibility with none of the confusing row-jiggling 
downsides of Microsoft's multi-row tabs.

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