Steve, On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 5:04 AM Stephen J. Orth via 4D_Tech < [email protected]> wrote:
> I really wish the tab object had more configuration options (especially > on Windows). It just seems to be a forgotten object. > Tabs like that have sort of fallen out of fashion in large part. When is the last time you saw that sort of tab bar on, well, anything else built in the last five years? There are a number of other solutions within 4D you can pretty easily use. 1) buttons With dynamic form variables (you are using dynamic variables now - right?) you make a nice button, formatted the way you like. It can be invisible to start. You make a project method for managing any of these tab buttons and put it in the button script. (I talk about using these sorts of form controllers in my Summit talk.) Instead of populating a tab array or list you duplicate this button to create the ones you need. Yes you have to manually manage setting the highlight on the 'current' tab, if that's important. Very easy to assign pics on the fly to individual buttons, size them as needed etc. 2) SVG SVG is fast enough for you to just draw a nice tab graphic as needed. Really. Rudy Mortimer did a presentation on using SVG interactively - which means you could detect which 'box' a user clicked on within the SVG itself. I'd probably just put some invisible buttons over the good parts as described above. 3) webarea Webareas can be small. They can be, say, 20px high x whatever wide. Simple code (I'm talking HTML & CSS) to create an attractive interface element and trapping the user clicks is simple. Take the borders off the webarea and it's a seamless integration. I admit none of these is as easy as dropping in the tab area from the form designer. But they are modular solutions so once you work out the one you like it becomes easy to implement. Personally I think the webarea is easy and flexible. -- Kirk Brooks San Francisco, CA ======================= *We go vote - they go home* ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
