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ehagood

Joined: 30 Jan 2006
Posts: 51

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:32 pm Post subject: Selecting the position of tab added to existing tab control

I am adding a tab to an existing tab control using

Code:

GuiControl,4:,MyTab,Test

But it creates the tab as the leftmost tab
(i.e.
Before adding...
|Tab 1|Tab 2|Tab 3|
After adding...
|Test|Tab 1|Tab 2|Tab 3|
)

I know that you can have Param3 of GuiControl contain all the tab names and have them recreated (i.e. GuiControl,4:,MyTab,|Tab 1|Tab 2|Tab 3|Test)... but I don't want to do this because I have several controls in each tab.

Does anyone know how to select the position of the new tab (or at least have it be the rightmost tab)?

Thanks,
Eddie

Guest

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Selecting the position of tab added to existing tab cont

Not pretty, but works(ish)...

Code:

TabCtrl_List:="Tab 1|Tab 2|Tab 3"
TabCtrl_List_Current:=TabCtrl_List

Gui, Add, Tab, vTab, %TabCtrl_List%
Gui, Tab, Tab 1
Gui, Add, Text, , Tab 1
Gui, Tab, Tab 2
Gui, Add, Text, , Tab 2
Gui, Tab, Tab 3
Gui, Add, Text, , Tab 3
Gui, Tab
Gui, Show, AutoSize Center
return

F9::
nt++
NewTab:="New Tab " nt

TabCtrl_List_Current.="|" NewTab
GuiControl, , Tab, |%TabCtrl_List_Current%

Gui, Tab, %NewTab%
Gui, Add, Text, , New Tab %nt%
Gui, Tab
return

...Bug: Add too many new Tabs & they wrap & then the initial controls are on top of the Tabs (cuz the initial controls position was calculated with a single line of tabs, before wrapping)...

jaco0646

Joined: 07 Oct 2006
Posts: 3113
Location: MN, USA

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: Selecting the position of tab added to existing tab cont

ehagood wrote:

... but I don't want to do this because I have several controls in each tab.

AHK Help File wrote:

...a tab's sub-controls stay associated with their original tab number; that is, they are never associated with their tab's actual display-name.

You shouldn't have to worry about the controls. They should stay put.

Code:

Gui, Add, Tab, vTab, 1|2|3
Gui, Add, Button,,Add
Loop,4 {
Gui, Tab, %A_Index%
Gui, Add, Text,,Tab #%A_Index%
}
Gui, Show
return
GuiClose:
ExitApp

ButtonAdd:
GuiControl,,Tab, |1|2|3|4
return

The behavior of GuiControl looks like a bug to me, since the documentation states that tabs will be appended at the end, while they are in fact appended at the beginning.

Tyrsius

Joined: 09 Jul 2009
Posts: 140

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: Selecting the position of tab added to existing tab cont

Anonymous wrote:

Not pretty, but works(ish)...
...Bug: Add too many new Tabs & they wrap & then the initial controls are on top of the Tabs (cuz the initial controls position was calculated with a single line of tabs, before wrapping)...

This can be fixed by disabling wrap in the tab options.

Tyrsius

Joined: 09 Jul 2009
Posts: 140

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:23 pm Post subject:

Has this been submitted as a bug report yet?

jaco0646

Joined: 07 Oct 2006
Posts: 3113
Location: MN, USA

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:41 pm Post subject:

It has now: Adding tabs via GuiControl. I was just waiting for someone to confirm it.

Guest

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: Selecting the position of tab added to existing tab cont

Tyrsius wrote:

This can be fixed by disabling wrap in the tab options.

...it can be worked-around by doing that, but what if you want it to wrap?

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