[Openroad-users] Tab Folder Question

[Antill, Jim]

Martin,
 
It's not a multi-line tab solution but I hope this is of interest.....
 
One solution would be to display the various options on a TreeViewField and
have a composite field to the right of this that displays each associated
"page". 
 
The TreeViewField has a rootnode with each of the options (which would be on
the tabs) being children of this node. Each "page" is built within a named
composite on the form and made invisible. Every treenode is attached to the
page it should fire by using the clientdata on the treenode. When the user
clicks on a treenode use the clientdata to get the required page, and parent
this to the display area composite (after first detaching any currently
displayed page).
 
I find this arrangement works well and can be more obvious to the user than
multi-line tabs which I've always found a bit awkward, particularly where a
large amount of pages are required.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Regards,
Jim

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OpenROAD Experts,

I am in the process of developing an application that is displaying all its
information in a tab folder.  Due to the large amount of information that
needs to be displayed, I require a large number of tabs.  Unfortunately,
OpenROAD will only display a single row of "tabs" above the folder, with
arrows either end to display the next / previous tab.  This is not ideal, as
you cannot see what other tabs are available and you have to scroll through
all tabs to get to either end.  What I would like to do is have multiple rows
of "tabs", as appears in Microsoft applications.

The only alternative I've come up with is to have multiple tab folders, with
a "menu" of buttons to move between the tab folders.  This however, causes
complex data manipulation between the various tab folders.  Has anyone
managed to implement multiple rows of "tabs" in an easy form, as I cannot see
an obvious way of doing this in OpenROAD? 

Thanks,

Martin Bloomfield.
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