Am Freitag, 29. August 2008 10:29 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > Hi, > > > > May applications, but mostly installations packages like > > InstallShield use a Wizard style interface. Start application, > > click Next, Next, Next, Finish. :-) > > > > How do you create such a Wizard interface? > > > > * Is in a lot of forms, displayed over eachother? > > * Is it a tab type component, with the tabs set to invisible? > > * Does it use one Form and a bunch of Frames? > > * ??? > > > > Anybody have some hints on this? How to recreate such an GUI > > interface. > > At work, we routinely use a TPageControl with all tabs set to > invisible. The TTabsheet pages are filled with TFrames (actually, > there is always a TWizardFrame, and all TFrames descend from this) - > to ensure the various steps are truly independent. > > It keeps it RAD, and lets the various tabs be developed > independently. TWizardFrame has methods and properties such as > 'NextButtonEnabled' 'PreviousButtonEnabled', 'NextButtonCaption' and > so in, making the wizard itself pretty generic.
Unfortunately, this does not work with gtk1, at least it didn't a year ago when I ported my wizard app from D7 to lazarus. It was impossible to hide the tabs, and worse: I couldn't find a way to prevent selecting a page by clicking the tabs (i.e. user could circumvent the "next" button) .. regards Burkhard _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
