Thanks to all contributors for this very helpful tutorial - I've learnt a lot by working through the ideas, and playing with the different types of menu button.
Could I suggest, Tom, that it might be an idea to add an opencard handler that simply sets the menuHistory of the tab menu to (the number of this card)? Then if the user naughtily uses some other method of going from card to card, the tabs will still be correctly highlighted to reflect his current location in the stack. -- From: Robert Brenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 14:38:06 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], How to use Revolution <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Very simple tab button script >Well the beauty of it is that you don't have to name each card for the tab. >1. make a tab button for your stack >2. put in the background (so it appears on every card) >3. put a line in the buttons contents for each card--you don't need >to name the card to match the tab! > >ex. (these are the lines in the buttons contents) >Welcome -> line 1, so selecting this will go to cd 1 >How to use >History >Preferences -> line 4, so will go to cd 4 > >Then you just have to make sure that your cards are in order. > >The (only?) advantage of this code over something like: >on menuPick tWhich > go to card tWhich >end menuPick Personally, I prefer to keep the order of tabs independent from the order of cards, and syncing the tab label and card names is not that much work. Actually, keeping the card order when you get beyong a few cards (I have 14 tabs in one project right now) is becoming more of a burden than syncing names. I just have an extra line in my handler so I am reminded if I haven't added a given card yet. on menuPick tWhich if there is not a cd tWhich then beep go cd tWhich end menuPick If you insist on using card number so you don't bother with card names, you can still disassociate the orders if you use custom properties of the tab button to control which card corresponds to which tab. on menuPick tWhich go cd (the tWhich of me) end menuPick or to play safer create a customProperty set on menuPick tWhich go cd (the myDestCard[tWhich] of me) end menuPick Robert _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
