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
