I've been looking over old discussions on tabbed forms… This all looks very tedious and time consuming. As the info is very old I'm thinking someone must have come up with a better way to do this by now. (It would be really nice to just have a checkbox to enable the tabbed interface as a form property.)

Are people still doing this the same way it was done in 1997? Or is there a more elegant alternative?

Thanks,

Jim

to simplify the procedure, but the sample application in the demo seemed to be coded 'the old way', that is with 50 or 100 lines of code in the event. (That code looked like it could be moved into a subroutine for easier re-use however, and was quite clear as to the intent.)

I was just wondering how developers were handling multi-page forms these days, in general terms. Anyone care to share?

Jim,

Tabs in OI are still done in the same way as always, though I expect this is about to change when OI gets OLE functionality and we can (hopefully) use the tab commom control in Win32. Currently

we still do tabs the 'hard' way like in the Slist product by using the 'swapping bitmap images' method.

An alternative I've seen to tabs in many recent products is to have a listbox on the left side of the screen show the available options and as one is selected change the contents on the right side. Check out the Mozilla Browser Preferences dialog for an example of this.

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I use AUTOTAB and I find it's simple to use. It requires no code. The only modification I do is is to reorder the tab order on each page to stop the user tabing to another page which can be disconcerting.

Bob Watson

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