• Advanced List Box-Record List Control
• Auto-PopulatingList Boxand Combo BoxControls
• Buttons
• Cascading Selection Lists
• Check Box Controls
• Chrome Browser Control
• Combo Boxes
• Comparing Drop-down Lists and Popup Dialogs
• Conditional Control Properties
• Conditionally Showing Controls
• Conditionally Sizing Controls
• Control Properties
• Controlling Record Navigation with the Invoice Toolbar
• Copying Selected Text from a Memo Control
• Creating a Cascading List
• Creating a User Defined Control
• Creating and Using a Multi-Level Popup Menu
• Creating Custom Toolbars
• Creating the Navigation Toolbar
• Defining Which Controls Have Tab Stops
• Displaying a Wait Message While a Branch Expands
• Displaying the Navigation Toolbar
• Dynamically Sizing List Box Row Height
• Edit Combo Box with Bubble Help for Choices
• HtmlHost
• Image Controls
• ImageViewer Control - Displaying Images on an Xdialog
• Line Breaks
• List Box
• ListView
• More Dialog Box Controls
• Numbering the Rows in a List Box
• Other Controls
• Placing a Browser Control on a Form
• Placing an HTML Edit Control on a Form
• Setting Choices for List and Combo Boxes
• Setting the Text and Value Properties of Items in a Choice List Array
• Simple List Box-Record List Control
• Special Formatting for Text Box Controls
• Specifying the Default Button
• Standard Controls
• Supercontrols
• Tab Controls
• The Record List Control
• Toolbars
• Tree Control
• User Defined Controls
• Using a Combo Box to Dynamically Redefine a Browse
• Using a Tabbed Object to Selectively Display Controls
• Using Embedded Owner-Draw Specifications in Controls
• Using Owner-Draw Specifications in Controls
• Using Radio Buttons to Select a Record
• Using the Microsoft Calendar Control
• Where is the Mouse?
• Working with List Boxes, Combo Boxes, Radio Buttons Etc
• Xdialog ListBoxes Dynamically Computing the Display Expression
• Xdialog Listboxes Horizontal Scrolling
• Xdialog Preview Button

 

Using a Tabbed Object to Selectively Display Controls

Description

The Tabbed1 object has three tabs and pages, each with its own set of controls. The controls on a page are hidden until the user clicks the corresponding tab.

Procedure: Creating a Tabbed Object to Selectively Display Controls

The following procedure assumes that the developer has opened the form in the Form Editor. Follow these instructions to create a tabbed control similar to Tabbed1 on the Inventory form:

1. Sketch the tabbed control onto the form.

2. Right click the tabbed control and select Properties... .

3. Click the Tabs tab.

4. Enter the labels for the three tabs into the Tab text list.

5. Click OK to save your edits.

   

6. Click the Product List tab and create its controls.

7. Click the Detail tab and create its controls.

8. Click the Vendors tab and create its controls.

See Also

• The Inventory Form