>> On Mar 24, 2007, at 6:36 AM, Emile SCHWARZ wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> REALbasic 2007 Release 1 Pro for Mac OS X 10.4.9 >>> >>> I just spend around ten minutes (in three times/attempts) to just >>> find how to name the Tabs of a TabPanel! >>> >>> Guess where you can do that ? >>> >>> a. Select the TabPanel, >>> b. Click in the Appearance, Panels: (Tabs) <?> entry! >>> >>> Do you believe that ? >>> >>> No, I can?t!
Tim Jones responded with: >> This implementation changed in the move from 5.x to the new format >> quite a while back. While it did take a bit of getting used to from >> the old method, it really does make sense in the current model. On Mar 25, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Emile SCHWARZ wrote: > Did you find it without hesitating ? I didn't, but that was because I was used to the 5.x mechanism. Once of my Linux friends found it immediately because it was very similar to a Python tool that he uses and he had no experience with the previous mechanism. At first, I thought it odd, but as soon as I saw the little dot with the ellipsis in the Appearance section of the Preferences pane, I clicked and located the editor for the tabs. Renaming the existing tabs was counter-intuitive (double-click in the name on the listbox), but adding and reordering was pretty obvious. > If so, I apologize. As I wrote below, it tooks me time to not > understand, but to try to click there. [SNIP] > What are the other users point of view ? > > And, do not forget that a TabPanel comes with two panels Tabs named > 1 and 2. And also, I do not tried (yet) to add a third tab (and a > forth since I need four Tabs there). I think the one thing that could be easily changed to make this procedure more obvious is the caption of the preference - it's currently labeled "Panels", but I think most of us expect them to be called "Tabs" - even though "Panels" is more correct for what they are. However, once you get used to the new method, it's all pretty straight forward since you no longer depend on contextual menus to edit only the names and number of tabs. By the way, you'll also nnotice that they changed the PagePanel control to use the same method. > Have a nice Sunday, You too, Tim -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
