Disabling a tab

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Sun Apr 1 20:32:17 EDT 2012


Thanks Phil.  I think the "(" is the standard char to disable menu items,
so that makes sense.  I did notice the "(" character in front of the lines
that I disabled.
Pete

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:

> 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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