Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
So would I. Maybe yours could replace the tab object the way Trevor's Datagrid replaced the Table Field. Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > >> I've started prototyping an example, and it seems the best approach for >> this kind of thing. >> If you'd like the example stack when

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-09 Thread Ken Ray
> I've started prototyping an example, and it seems the best approach for > this kind of thing. > If you'd like the example stack when I'm done, please let me know. LC > 4.6.1 I'd like to see it! Maybe it could turn into a DropTool... :D Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsot

How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Stuart
on Mon Jun 6 23:31:53 CDT 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote: >>If you view UI elements in lists, the group "Script Tabs" is in revSETemplate on card Main.<< Thanx for the heads up on this Jacqueline. I noticed the "Script Tabs" group is using a behavior button - several lines of code. The objects (but

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think the difference is that you expect an option button to work that way. Menus are something different. Even if a user made a choice before, you wouldn't want to prevent him from making the same choice again. Is there a way with a tab object to have no selection, that is have none of the t

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread Pete
Touche! However changing menuPick to supply the previous selection for all menu buttons wouldn't anybody's code one iota until they decided to make use of that extra info. Pete Molly's Revenge On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Pete- > > Monda

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/6/11 9:54 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Jim Ault wrote: It is like clicking the same radio button in a group. If the user makes the same choice in a menu, since there is no change, should the menupick report it? If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/6/11 3:00 PM, Mark Stuart wrote: on Mon Jun 6 10:59:46 CDT 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote: I think the OP means horizontal tabs, since that's what the LiveCode editor uses. That's as simple as setting up a tab button where each tab opens either the correct card, or shows the correct group.<<

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Jim Ault wrote: > It is like clicking the same radio button in a group. > If the user makes the same choice in a menu, since there is no change, should > the menupick report it? If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Or,

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Monday, June 6, 2011, 3:31:02 PM, you wrote: > It's still that way in 4.6.0. Also note that the menuPick message for > tabbed menus includes a parameter containing the previous tab selection as > well as the one just clicked. Wish they'd done that for ALL types of menu > buttons. Wait a

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread Jim Ault
On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: It's actually more like a menu. One of the caveats (at least in the past, they may have fixed it) is that like some types of menus, picking the same thing as you picked last time does not generate the menuPick command, so you have to fudge it

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread Pete
It's still that way in 4.6.0. Also note that the menuPick message for tabbed menus includes a parameter containing the previous tab selection as well as the one just clicked. Wish they'd done that for ALL types of menu buttons. Pete Molly's Revenge On Mon, Jun 6

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
It's actually more like a menu. One of the caveats (at least in the past, they may have fixed it) is that like some types of menus, picking the same thing as you picked last time does not generate the menuPick command, so you have to fudge it. Bob On Jun 6, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Mark Stuart wrot

How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread Mark Stuart
on Mon Jun 6 10:59:46 CDT 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote: >>I think the OP means horizontal tabs, since that's what the LiveCode editor uses. That's as simple as setting up a tab button where each tab opens either the correct card, or shows the correct group.<< Hi Jaqueline and Richard, Thanx for th

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/6/11 8:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Good to see you here, Mark: It's a while since I've been on the list but anyway, how would I go about building the same tab interface (multiple document interface) as the LC script editor? As the user wants to open a document, they would have the choice

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Good to see you here, Mark: It's a while since I've been on the list but anyway, how would I go about building the same tab interface (multiple document interface) as the LC script editor? As the user wants to open a document, they would have the choice of overwriting the existing open document

How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Stuart
Hi all, It's a while since I've been on the list but anyway, how would I go about building the same tab interface (multiple document interface) as the LC script editor? As the user wants to open a document, they would have the choice of overwriting the existing open document, or opening the docume