Hi Greg. I did see a scrollable tab widget once. ;-)
Your points are good though. > rainbow sally wrote: > > They appear to be arrays of parameters for tabs and it looks > > like the upper limit of the number of tabs is 128. That's really > > unrealistic in v. 2.x, however, because we don't have a way to scroll the > > tabs > > so we end up missing some stuff after about 5 to 10 pages. > > Right -- the FLTK tabs are pretty limited due to lack of scrolling. > So 128 tabs would be really pushing the limits of the GUI. > > Unlike most FLTK widgets that have scrollers or other ways to move > through large amounts of data, the FLTK tab widget is one of the few > that is fairly limited in its presentation. > > The argument is that a tab widget paradigm isn't optimal for a > large number of items, and that 'scrolling sideways' through tabs > is a weak use of tabs. > > The recommendation is that if you really want a large number of tabs, > move to a different widget, like an Fl_Browser or an Fl_Tree. > (One can see this in e.g. the microsoft IDE itself, where when > you look at the properties of a project, each classification > is in a browser list at the left, and the dialog/forms appear at the > right.) > > The only place I've ever seen a really large number of tabs > is in web browsers, and in those cases they're custom widgets > that seem to still be evolving how to do things.. ie. it's still > in a growth process. Things such as little 'x' buttons to close > the tab, etc. > > I haven't seen anyone in the FLTK community submit a scrollable > tab widget. If someone did, then that widget would definitely want > to have no limits on the number of tabs. Until then, though, there's > probably no need, until the widget is enhanced in some way. _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list fltk-dev@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
