On Nov 8, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote:
> On 11/8/2015 7:27 AM, James Hale wrote:
>> Recently there was some discussion concerning the use of hidden groups with
>> the tab control. An app I am working on currently uses a tab control with
>> five tabs that currently go to different cards. The cards concerned all
>> share a number of other controls responsible for about 60% of their area
>> with the tabbed panel taking the rest. Some of the panels are simply
>> variations of another (e.g. Simple vs complex search).
>> I am now wondering whether there would be an advantage in reducing these
>> five cards down to one and use the hidden group method.
>> Given I am not starting from scratch my question is, would there be
>> advantages to me in making this transition?
>> So for those of you employing this method, why do you?
>> Is it having a single card script?
>> Is it keeping the stack structure simple?
>> Is it...?
>> I would be very interested in your thoughts.
>>
>
> I use a single card and multiple groups when the majority of the UI is
> (or will be) the same - i.e there would be a lot of common controls on
> different cards
>
> I use multiple cards when the UI for each card is substantially different.
>
> So it is basically a linear scale with tabbed groups being on one end
> where there a lot of common UI elements and tabbed cards being on the
> other end with little common UI elements. Where the dividing line is is
> probably a matter of personal preference. Organization of handlers plays
> a role in the choice as well. Recently, I have been leaning more towards
> multiple groups as I find accessing the objects and scripts in the IDE
> via the Application Browser a bit easier.
I do the same. If you go with the multiple groups/one card solution, an easy
way of managing the clicks in the tab button is something like this:
on showGroup tGroup
put "group1,group2,group3,group4" into gpList
repeat for each item i in gpList
set the visible of group i to (i = tGroup)
end repeat
end showGroup
and if the group names are the same as the tab labels, it's quite
straightforward:
on menuPick pItemName
showGroup pItemName
end menuPick
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
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