Hi,
I have what must be a newbie question.
I am trying to use the TabbedPane component Tomahawk.
I am using MyFaces 1.1.1.
Let's say I have 3 tabs:
Tab1, Tab2 and Tab3
Is it possible to capture the click of a Tab? This component doesn't have an action attribute.
If you are on Tab1 and click on Tab2, how do I get to that event?
It seems that onClick should at least get it from the _javascript_ side.
However, this doesn't seem to work as anticipated. Instead, using
onClick in the t:panelTab works for the active tab, and using
onClick in t:panelTabbedPane captures it for all tabs. I want to
capture clicking on Tab2 and Tab3 as separate events.
<t:panelTabbedPane
bgcolor="#DDDDDD" >
<t:panelTab
id="tab_staffDetails" label="#{labels.staffdetails}" rendered="true"
>
Ideally, I would like the the tab to have an action attribute so I
could treat it like a submit button. Clicking it would save the current
tab then display the clicked on tab.
Specifically, I want to prompt the user to save their work when the
move from tab to tab. It is VERY possible that they may fill out a tab,
go do something else and lose that tabbed page of work due to a timeout
or they may just assume that their work was already persisted to the
datasbase. Probably, I may have separate JSP's to represent each tab. I
have concerns that I have too many tabs (5) and too many fields
(several forms, many fields each). I have also considered just "making"
my own tabbed pane with a clever use of CSS and h:commandButton's.
Anyone have any experience with designing a tabbed interface and want
to comment on their feelings about it. To date, I have mostly stuck
with a "wizard" approach (Next, Next Finish/Save). A tabbed pane
interface (while it looks cool) seems cumbersome and difficult to split
up among multiple developers.
I am only doing a tabbe interface because I was asked to use this
metaphor. In reality, I don't think that it is necssarily any more user
friendly than a wizard or seqential approach?
Thanks for any input.
Kevin Hutson
