Re: Position of a tab in a tab control.
Pete, I may be wrong, but I don't think there's a way to control the differences between the two platforms without rolling your own tab control. However, Mark Schonewille has done much of the work and made his custom tab control available through RevOnline, just search for custom tab and you should find it, or the web hosted version is here… http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/258/Custom-Tab-Button You should be able to adapt it (or copy the principles) to suit your needs. Paul On 20 Apr 2012, at 04:19, Peter Haworth wrote: Is there a way to get hold of the coordinates of the label of the currently selected tab of a tab control? I have a control that I want to position immediately below the label of the current tab of a tab control. I tried doing this by trial and error, adding a number of pixels to the left of the control to position it correctly. This was all on a Mac and as soon as I tried it on a Windows machine, the control is not positioned correctly, and I suspect it would be affected by different screen resolutions also. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Position of a tab in a tab control.
If using Mark's custom tab control doesn't work for you, here's a kludgy work-around. It requires a hidden field hiddenTestFld with margins set to 6. on positionControl btnName, tabNbr -- btnName is the name of your tab button put the formattedwidth of btn btnName into bWidth put the formattedheight of btn btnName into bHeight put item 1 of the loc of btn btnName into bCenter put bWidth div 2 into halfWidth put bCenter - halfWidth into bLeft put bCenter + halfWidth into bRight put the top of btn btnName into bTop set the textfont of fld hiddenTestFld to the textfont of btn btnName set the textsize of fld hiddenTestFld to the textsize of btn btnName put 0 into divisions repeat with n = 1 to the number of lines of btn btnName put line n of btn btnName into tabName put tabName into fld hiddenTestFld put (the formattedwidth of fld hiddenTestFld) into tWidth put (item n of divisions) + tWidth into item n+1 of divisions end repeat put (item tabNbr of divisions) + bLeft into tabLeft put (item tabNbr+1 of divisions) + bLeft into tabRight put tabLeft + ((tabRight - tabLeft) div 2) into tabCenter set the loc of btn floatingControl to tabCenter,bHeight+24 end positionControl The result in placing the control (in this case btn floatingControl) below the correct tab is not quite exact, for reasons I haven't gotten to the bottom of, but you could fiddle with it a bit. HTH, -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Apr 20, 2012, at 5:35 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote: Pete, I may be wrong, but I don't think there's a way to control the differences between the two platforms without rolling your own tab control. However, Mark Schonewille has done much of the work and made his custom tab control available through RevOnline, just search for custom tab and you should find it, or the web hosted version is here… http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/258/Custom-Tab-Button You should be able to adapt it (or copy the principles) to suit your needs. Paul On 20 Apr 2012, at 04:19, Peter Haworth wrote: Is there a way to get hold of the coordinates of the label of the currently selected tab of a tab control? I have a control that I want to position immediately below the label of the current tab of a tab control. I tried doing this by trial and error, adding a number of pixels to the left of the control to position it correctly. This was all on a Mac and as soon as I tried it on a Windows machine, the control is not positioned correctly, and I suspect it would be affected by different screen resolutions also. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Position of a tab in a tab control.
Peter,Paul(I so wish there was a Mary on the list), Thanks for the info on Mark's tab control and the handler. I'll try both and see works best. Pete On Apr 20, 2012 8:14 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: If using Mark's custom tab control doesn't work for you, here's a kludgy work-around. It requires a hidden field hiddenTestFld with margins set to 6. on positionControl btnName, tabNbr -- btnName is the name of your tab button put the formattedwidth of btn btnName into bWidth put the formattedheight of btn btnName into bHeight put item 1 of the loc of btn btnName into bCenter put bWidth div 2 into halfWidth put bCenter - halfWidth into bLeft put bCenter + halfWidth into bRight put the top of btn btnName into bTop set the textfont of fld hiddenTestFld to the textfont of btn btnName set the textsize of fld hiddenTestFld to the textsize of btn btnName put 0 into divisions repeat with n = 1 to the number of lines of btn btnName put line n of btn btnName into tabName put tabName into fld hiddenTestFld put (the formattedwidth of fld hiddenTestFld) into tWidth put (item n of divisions) + tWidth into item n+1 of divisions end repeat put (item tabNbr of divisions) + bLeft into tabLeft put (item tabNbr+1 of divisions) + bLeft into tabRight put tabLeft + ((tabRight - tabLeft) div 2) into tabCenter set the loc of btn floatingControl to tabCenter,bHeight+24 end positionControl The result in placing the control (in this case btn floatingControl) below the correct tab is not quite exact, for reasons I haven't gotten to the bottom of, but you could fiddle with it a bit. HTH, -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Apr 20, 2012, at 5:35 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote: Pete, I may be wrong, but I don't think there's a way to control the differences between the two platforms without rolling your own tab control. However, Mark Schonewille has done much of the work and made his custom tab control available through RevOnline, just search for custom tab and you should find it, or the web hosted version is here… http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/258/Custom-Tab-Button You should be able to adapt it (or copy the principles) to suit your needs. Paul On 20 Apr 2012, at 04:19, Peter Haworth wrote: Is there a way to get hold of the coordinates of the label of the currently selected tab of a tab control? I have a control that I want to position immediately below the label of the current tab of a tab control. I tried doing this by trial and error, adding a number of pixels to the left of the control to position it correctly. This was all on a Mac and as soon as I tried it on a Windows machine, the control is not positioned correctly, and I suspect it would be affected by different screen resolutions also. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Position of a tab in a tab control.
Is there a way to get hold of the coordinates of the label of the currently selected tab of a tab control? I have a control that I want to position immediately below the label of the current tab of a tab control. I tried doing this by trial and error, adding a number of pixels to the left of the control to position it correctly. This was all on a Mac and as soon as I tried it on a Windows machine, the control is not positioned correctly, and I suspect it would be affected by different screen resolutions also. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
