Is there a way to mask or disable tabs so that clicking onto them will not cause you to move from one tab location to another.

I like the elegance of tabs for minimizing layouts but would like to constrain navigation to scripts (that go to objects within a tab).

I can make it disappear visually by laying a graphic object over the top of it but if you click onto the graphic object you still activate the new tab.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jarvis

Try covering the actual tabs with a another tab just 1 tab wide.

Hi John,

I have tried this as a solution and I still get a flicker through the 16 tabs that are set to 1px and covered with another single tab.

Any suggestions as to how I can stop the flicker between tabs?

Mac

Flickering is usually due to colours in plural, if you keep background and objects indentical in appearances, will it solve this problem and raise another

--sd

For me, tabs aren't ready for prime-time yet. Not until the ability to run a script form the tab comes. Hopefully RSN.

All the hacks to hide tabs etc just make development so much harder and maintenance near-impossible, and will become a real PITA to remove when a proper solution becomes available.

I'm still building systems with multiple layouts for main interfaces, and only using tabs for really simple things.

Hi Soren and Vaughan,

First off Soren I have tried something a little different and that controlled the flicker.

So between you Soren and Vaughan enlighten me on how or the best way to do the following:

I have 17 Tabs and in each tab there is 4 containers for images how can I insert an image into each field without it showing in the next tab?

See my layout in the file attached.

Any help would greatly appreciated

Thanks guys

images2.zip

I have 17 Tabs and in each tab there is 4 containers for images how can I insert an image into each field without it showing in the next tab?

Relationally point at different records for each tab. Whether this is hardwired or due to a global field is strictly speaking of no importance, but I think I would solve it like:

http://fmcollective.com/?p=27

Which probably is 2 tables more that you already have implemented in your solution???

--sd

Thanks for the link Soren but 5 days out and I am still scratching my head and now the other "insert image" Buttons don't work but I can still right mouse click and insert image

There must be a way to get the images into several container fields within a tab or will I have to define the database as Image 1 > Image 64 so each one has its own container field?

Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys

Mac

so each one has its own container field

No the point I tried to make is that it's the same container field in different records a relation away - just like you can list container fields in a portal, can the portal be cut up so row 1 will show in first tab, row 2 will show up in tab2...etc.

--sd

:idunno:

I am having problems understanding sorry

So how would you do it with the example as i would probably understand better if I see what it is.

Now you mixing portals with container fields and tabs

I will learn this trust me.

Thanks

Mac

Something like this - It has it's flaws though you can't without an extra relation optain a free access to store an image in whatever tab you should wish (until then store sequentially), so regard this as a preliminary result. Since the chosen tab needs to be relational key as well in a multicriteria relation to optian the desired effect.

--sd

ScriptWhere.zip