>
> >please give the option to draw captions vertically.
>
>It's my understanding that this can't be done using standard system
>routines. I might be wrong, but isn't this a limitation of QuickDraw or
>something?
There has got to be a way to draw the titles on them vertically or
there's no real point in being able to create that kind of tab
panel... I'd be happy with the ability to assign a pict to them as
the caption...
> >please give the ability to stack tab panels.
>> ( this will require a different implementation than tabpanelindex;
>> perhaps the conversion of tabpanelindex to an array,
>> to allow for expandability. )
>
>This was brought up a long time ago, but got shot down because it was
>thought to be too ugly. I would like to ask for scrolling tabs, so that
>we can have more tabs then the width of the panel allows.
>
I"ve got to say that we should be able to come up with a better way
to do this than with the lame stacked tabs that windows uses. I
DETEST stacked panels in windows, they look horrible and are terribly
confusing.
Perhaps if there are that many options, a tab panel is not the best
way to go, perhaps a listbox that controls which window to the right
is selected is the better HI way to go. Like Eudora does for it's
settings. Instead of using a dozen stacked tabs, they have a listbox
along the left that has an icon for each "tab" and controls what
controls are visible on the right hand side of the window. You could
even do this with a tabpanel to make it easier, just size it so that
the tabs are not visible in the window and sue the listindex of the
listbox to control which tab is visible.
IMHO a thousand times better than stacked tabs.
-James Sentman
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