Nate Lowrie wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Nate Lowrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Paul McNary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On UNIX the TABS are like menu tabs and the text is not vertical, the text >>> is horizontal. >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> | TAB One >>> | >>> ---------------- >>> | >>> | TAB Two | >>> | >>> ---------------- >>> | >>> | TAB Three | >>> | >>> ---------------- >>> | >>> | etc. | >>> | >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Eyes go straight up and down, Much easier to use with long tab labels, than >>> are >>> sometimes unavoidable. >>> >>> Where I might only get 3 tab labels on a top tabbed page. >>> I can easily get 14+ tabs on a left tabbed page. >>> >>> Does the Right Tab option work different on your platform? >> >> Well, it sure is crappily implemented on Windows...The text and tabs >> are running up and down instead of left to right in your example and >> it looks horrible.. I also noticed that if you set TabPosition after >> instantiation that it moves the tabs but doesn't redraw itself on >> Windows. > > Thought I might include a picture... > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/Solodex/Dabo/dPageFrame_right_tabs.png
Nate I wouldn't like that style either. I agree tilting the head is not a good design and it would have defeated my purpose to present the most information in the least possible space. I wonder why windows is different? I might have came to the same conclusion you did, if I used windows. Thanks for listening!!!!!! Paul McNary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-dev This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
