TabSet

[OuTCasT]

Hi all.

If i had a tabset with 6 tab pages on it and i have some fields to insert data on each of them. each tab page has got an add button on it. Would it be possible that when the clients clicks on the add button on one of the tabs.....that the client cannot leave that tab page until they have saved the work or that they have clicked cancel ???

making the other tabs disable and not be able to get focus until the client has saved the data that he is busy with ???

[cloud255]

Hi there,

Well i found a work around, i'm pretty sure that someone else will have a better solution, but here goes, by the way this is done for a windows app:

I created a boolean to track if the tab pages must be 'locked' and a TabPage to keep track of the active page.

Then when you perform an action which requires tab locking, you set the boolean and the active TabPage.

Next in the selected indexChanged of the tab control i check if we are locking tabs, if so address the tab control and set the selected tab to the active tab.

Finally you need some sort of mechanism to set the locking variable to false (your cancel/save button).

It worked fine for me, but not very pretty...

[OuTCasT]

Hi there,

Well i found a work around, i'm pretty sure that someone else will have a better solution, but here goes, by the way this is done for a windows app:

I created a boolean to track if the tab pages must be 'locked' and a TabPage to keep track of the active page.

Then when you perform an action which requires tab locking, you set the boolean and the active TabPage.

Next in the selected indexChanged of the tab control i check if we are locking tabs, if so address the tab control and set the selected tab to the active tab.

Finally you need some sort of mechanism to set the locking variable to false (your cancel/save button).

It worked fine for me, but not very pretty...

Hi

Thanks i will try that.
I actually found a tab control that can be added to Visual Studio that has tab enabled/disabled feature.
so you can just say tabpage.enabled = false and it works perfectly.

I can give you the link if you like ?

--DK--

[cloud255]

I can give you the link if you like ?

Yeah that would be great :D

[OuTCasT]

Yeah that would be great :D

TabControlEX


Download the TabControlEX control and then add it too your toolbox and then you can drag it onto the form.

[cloud255]

Download the TabControlEX control and then add it too your toolbox and then you can drag it onto the form.

Wow, this a pretty cool control, sure makes life easier.
But it makes me wonder why MS didn't see the need for this, i mean we have been seeing disabled tabs since WIN 95 if i am not mistaken,

Anyway, thanks for the link :)