Re: Switching tab views in Interface Builder
Re: Switching tab views in Interface Builder
- Subject: Re: Switching tab views in Interface Builder
- From: RICKY SHARP <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:40:43 -0800
On Thursday, November 15, 2007, at 04:54AM, "Chris Suter" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>On 28/10/2007, at 12:53 AM, Antonio Nunes wrote:
>
>> On 27 Oct 2007, at 01:43, Gordon Apple wrote:
>>
>>> I filed a bug report on this because I couldn't find a way to do it.
>>> The only way I have found to switch my tabless tab views in IB is
>>> to change
>>> them back to tabbed views, select the one I want, when switch back to
>>> tabless. ("Tabbing" the tab views doesn't work either.) The old
>>> IB had a
>>> selection field in the Inspector. Is there something I'm just
>>> missing? The
>>> default-tab selector popup doesn't switch tabs in IB.
>>
>> Change view mode to list or browser mode, then drill down the view
>> hierarchy until you see the individual tabs and double click the one
>> you want to open. It's a bit of a bother to have to go through all
>> this effort. I think I'll submit a bug report on it asking back for
>> an efficient way to choose the desired tab in the inspector.
>>
>> -António
>
>Another way that works is to make sure you've selected a tab view item
>and then use select next/previous sibling from the Tools menu.
After filing the enhancement requests, please write back in with bug numbers as I'd like to reference them in my own.
I too find the new method horrible. I did accidentally stumble upon a keyboard method to do it, but that can be tricky and a bit dangerous:
As I use a custom UI for kiosk-style apps, my NIBs contain dozens of such tab views. And, some are nested. I found that direct selection is extremely difficult in 3.0. At one point, I believe I selected (single-clicked) the tab view and then pressed the 'tab' key. This highlighted a 'virtual tab' (I believe the same sized rectangle as a tab would be if shown). Anyhow, if you see that, _be careful to not use the arrow keys_! Pressing left or right arrow will re-order the selected tab. I think a key combo of control-Apple-<arrow> will then cycle amongst the tabs (not in front of IB, so cannot remember; but this should be the key equivs to the items in Tools mentioned above).
Totally agree that the inspector should have a method to select the tab. I accidentally used the stepper next to the "number of tabs" field thinking that would allow me to switch among them.
Here's what I plan to personally file (maybe separate bugs, or all part of one):
(1) Need a better method to directly select tabless tab views.
(2) I would personally reverse the keyboard equivs to select vs. re-order. It's too easy to just hit the arrow key and accidentally re-order your tab. I would think that selecting a tab to edit would be the most common use-case.
(3) Inspector mod mentioned above.
--
Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)
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