not quite what I was saying.... The Tab_Manager() routine would handle whatever is needed to load related records, calculations, set enterability etc for the current tab. The current tab being the array 'Tab_Control'
ex: Tab_Manager(Tab_Control) in Tab_Manager $Current_Tab:=$1 case of :($current_Tab = 1) :($current_Tab = 2) :($current_Tab = 3) etc end case Since Tab_Control is an array (the displayed tab markers.) the last clicked tab is the value in Tab_Control. IF during the On Load, or ON Unload, or On Verify form events you do NOT clear the array, then when going to next/prev record Tab_Control will STILL HAVE the last user selected tab, and the tab control will display this tab (2 or 5 or 10). IF you clear the array (clear variable) or Tab_Control := 0 (or 1) Then the displayed tab will be the the first tab. NOTE : someone mentioned using Get Current Form Page This will only work if your tab control also changes page, on a multi page form. I do not often create multi-page forms, this would not work for many of my entry forms > Thanks for your reply, Chip. > > If I’m understanding you correctly, Tab manager(Tab_Control) does > the work of loading related-record data after a record-change button > action (next, previous, etc) on an input form, and your experience is > that the related data would not load otherwise. Am I getting that > correct? > > If that’s the case then all I can say is my experience with v12 for > a continuous string of years has been different. I’ll go back and > recheck form and object methods just to be sure… and report back if > I find anything. In any event, thanks for your reply. > > max > > >> On Jan 16, 2017, at 6:11 AM, Chip Scheide >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> no this is not the case, in v12 even. >> Tab controls are arrays, as such, if you/user selects a tab and you do >> not clear/reinitialize the array between record access, then it has the >> last selected tab as default. >> ex (pseudo code): >> >> :(on load) >> if (size of array(tab_control)=0) >> array text(tab_control;5) >> list to array("Entry_tab_Titles";Tab_Control) >> Tab_Control:=1 >> end if >> Tab_Manager(tab_Control) // does work to display correct info on tab >> page >> >> then on the second access of the entry form (next/previous record) the >> tab control will still have whatever value the user last selected, and >> the above code will setup the tab accordingly. >> >> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:48:41 -0900, Max Morrison wrote: >>> >>> First, I’d like to verify a possible change in behavior going from >>> v12 to v15… It use to be the case that Tab Controls would maintain >>> the currently displayed page across new-record load events, on an >>> input form. In other words, an input form is displaying a record with >>> a tab control on page 2. In v12 when I click the next record button >>> the next record displays with page 2 of the tab control still active >>> and highlighted. In v15 my tab control is reverting to page 1. Is >>> this behavior the same for all or just me? >> ********************************************************************** >> 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) >> FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html >> Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html >> Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >> Unsub: mailto:[email protected] >> ********************************************************************** > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ------------ Hell is other people Jean-Paul Sartre ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
