Re: NSTabView. to many

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,

On 2003-06-04 11:17:10 +0200 <Oystein@Knowlex.no> wrote:

> How can I get the tabs to scroll if I have got too many of them?

There is no way to scroll tabs.

> I have got a tab view that is dynamic and the user are allowed to add
> more tabs than what fits in the area set for the NSTabView.
> How do I get only the tabs to scroll?

Tab view is not intented to hold too many tabs. Interfaces (dialogs/windows) 
with overtabbed tabviews, like we know from some MS windows apps, are difficult 
to use and navigate throught the tab forest. I would suggest you to rethink and 
redesign the user interface.

For example you can use another kind of container (browser or matrix in scroll 
view). Another option should be to use NSPopUpButton to hold all 'tabs' and 
connect it to the tab view. You can set tab view type to NSNoTabsBezelBorder 
and set target of NSPopupButton to be the tabview and action to be 
takeSelectedTabViewItemFromSender:. With this connection, when you select some 
item from NSPopupButton action is sent to the tab view and tab item is changed 
to reflect the selection.

Stefan
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