MetaCard tab buttons have a seemingly minor but rather significant
usability issue: the label for the selected tab is almost
indistinguishable from the other, non-selected tabs. Yes, the tab size
is increased a couple pixels, but this is the only visual change, and in
a light-colored layout this change is not clear enough, or at least as
clear as other, more conventional tab drawing methods (see the Mac HIG
for good tab examples -
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGOS8Guide/thig-29.html#HEADING29
-0>).
Ideally, there would be a new property for tab controls which allows us
to define the unselectedColor, the color of those tabs behind the current
one.
In absence of this, what do you folks do? I've hard-wired all manner of
solutions in the past, but at the moment I have a particularly tough case
in which the tab labels must be dynamic, which prevents me from using any
hard-wired additional objects, and makes setting the location for other
objects problematic (cross-platform font widths are hard to predict).
Any tips would be much appreciated -
- Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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