Some help need for using hiCreateTabField

Hi SL,

Upon creation of a form with tab, you needs to set the ?pageBase of the tab in hiCreateTabField in order for you to get the tab info. For example:

tabfield = hiCreateTabField( ?name 'tabfield

                                        ?fields list( field1() field2() field3())

                                        ?tabs list("layout" "schematic" "symbol")

                                        ?pageBase "TAB"

                                        ?tabOrderIsAddOrder t

                                        ?pageScroller t)

TAB1 will be the tab for "layout", TAB2 for "schematic", and TAB3 for "symbol".

In order to get the information of the tab, you can use Form->tabfield->TAB1->item1->value, same as others.

Rgds,

How

 Hi SL,

If you are using IC612 or later you can reference the tab page by its name also.  If you do not specify the pageBase, then I believe the default is "page", so you can refer to the page using, in the following example, page_layout, page_schematic or page_symbol

procedure(fun(arg)
  list(
    hiCreateLabel(
      ?name concat('label arg)
      ?labelText case(arg (1 "layout") (2 "schematic") (3 "symbol"))
    )
    0:0 30:50 50
  )
)

tabField = hiCreateTabField(
  ?name 'tabField
  ?fields list(list(fun(1)) list(fun(2)) list(fun(3)))
  ?tabs list("layout" "schematic" "symbol")
  ?tabOrderIsAddOrder t
  ?pageScroller t)

form = hiCreateAppForm(
  ?name 'tabTestForm
  ?formTitle "Tab Test Form"
  ?fields list(list(tabField 0:0 400:100 50))
)

hiDisplayForm(form)

 So I can access form->tabField->page_schematic

However, to find which field is currently in use, I think that you can use the hiGetCurrentField() function, but this only works for type-in fields that have the focus so it definitely wont work with the example above.  I've just been trying to get the current tab for other forms but I have not yet worked this out...

Regards,

Lawrence.

Hi Everyone

I did some testing and found that we can get the current tab using the value of the tab item. E.g.

myTabs=hiCreateTabField( ... )

In ciw, if you query for the value of "myTabs", you will get the current tab. E.g. I have 5 tabs in my form, if I query using:

hiGetCurrentForm()~>myTabs->value

I will get "3" if the 3rd tab is currently active. You can then work backwards to get a handle to that tab.E.g.

myForm=hiGetCurrentForm()
sprintf(curTab "%n" myForm~>myTabs~>value)
handle=evalstring(strcat("myForm~>myTabs~>page" curTab))

Best regards
Quek

 Thanks for the guidance from How, Lawrence and Quek! Really appreciate the help from you guys.

Regards,

SL