make a tab page invisible

Hi,

Does anybody have an idea on how to make a tab page invisible? We have managed it by destroying and copying it in but that is a bit of a hassle. Something like windowshow doesn't seem to work but would be nice.

Steven

I'm not aware of any really easy solution like windowshow(). The tabcontrol widget is pretty complex in the way it works with the tree structure to define how it behaves.

You can move the tabs out and call refreshview(), as you mentioned. I'm not sure that there is another way to do it.

You can avoid the flicker when you hide the tab if you use the sendwindowmessage() command to delete the tab. When you make the tab reappear though, you still have to call refreshview() so there is still a flicker. Either way, you still have to move the nodes out of the tree so that the tab that is showing is related to the correct panel.

This is quite an old post but the question is related.
I dynamically replaces a tabpage and everything works. The only problem I have is that when I go to that tabpage the edges are past the bottom of the tabpage. If I resize the main GUI 1 pixel then it is fine again. I attached a picture. The bottom part is wrong, the top part is correct.

I've tried different options with refresh and repaint but I can't get it to work. Any suggestions anybody?

I added and deleted tabs manually and refresh the view with the command refreshview() on the window. It just works fine.

Do you have an example?

Hi Carsten,

I attached a model with 1 red box in it. If you click on it and then on first tab page "Select Input Table Type" and there switch the selection in the drop down box and then look at the 2nd tabpage you will see the problem.
With the first switch it is even worse because the tabpage looks like it begins in the middle of the page but that can be solved by defining the richt x and y positions. Although it is still strange that it works ok if you enlarge the view with 1 pixel.

I find a salution with the attribute OnSelect on TabControl. I just set positions and sizes in this attribute. Please take a look.

I don't know why the tab control can't set the correct position itself?!

Hi Carsten,

Thanks for at least giving me a solution. But you are right it stays strange why it doesn't do this by itself.

I found another solution

You can use the command

   tabcontrolrefresh(c);

in the attribute OnSelect in your tabcontrol.

He Carsten,

This works even better. I just wrote it in the code where I also changed the tabs and it works!!

Thanks again

you are welcome

Hello,

I have updated the GUI mentioned above, to be more to the current (i.e. Flexsim 6) standard and have used a pagelist in the tabcontrol in stead of adding subpages directly.

If I now want to change a page, how do I do that properly? I have tried to change the name of the subnode in the pagelist (thepages), but if I use tabcontrolrefresh, the GUI is not updated.

If I use refreshview, the GUI is updated ok, but I also added the General Page (VIEW:/pages/shared/General) and if I use the refreshview, all the Flags are unchecked after the refreshview call.

Does anybody have a solution for this? So updating the tabcontrol, without losing all the Flags on the General page?

Esther