tabs.gadget

gadgetclass

THIS CLASS IS DEPRECATED - DO NOT USE IN NEW CODE

This gadget was never officially released, but was an old demo in a previous NDK. The gadget will receive none or sporadic fixes and changes.

clicktab.gadget is the supported gadget for such functionality.

The tabs gadget class provides a custom control that has imagry similar in style to the tabs seen in a drawer full of file folders. The action of the gadget is the same as a conventional mutual-exclusion control in that only one tab can be active at a time and a tab is selected by clicking upon it.

The purpose of the tabs gadget class is to provide functionality like the page selection cycle gadget on the top-right side of the AmigaOS 2.1 PrinterPS preferences editor, but allowing all the choices to be visible at the same time.

This gadget class requires 2.04 (V37) or greater.

GA_Disabled (BOOL)

Determines whether the button is disabled or not. Changing disable state will invoke GM_RENDER. A disabled button's border and label are all rendered in SHADOWPEN and then dusted in a ghosting pattern that is rendered in SHADOWPEN. Defaults to FALSE.

GA_TextAttr (struct TextAttr *)

Text attribute for the font to use for the labels.

LAYOUTA_ChildMaxWidth (BOOL)

Indicate whether the tabs should be the width of the widest label. Defaults to TRUE.

TABS_Labels (TabLabelP)

An array of TabLabel structures used to indicate the labels for each of the tabs.

TABS_Current (LONG)

Currently selected tab. Defaults to zero.

This gadget class requires 2.04 or beyond to run.