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Re: unmap tab widgets? [message #67357]

Wed, 15 July 2009 05:24

David Fanning
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Marshall Perrin writes:

> I've got an application which offers the user a large set of options
> presented in about half a dozen tabs. Depending on the overall program
> mode, one or more of these tabs may be inapplicable, so I would like
> to unmap them to hide the irrelevant options.
>
> Yet the usual "widget_control, wid, map=0" command doesn't seem to
> do anything for base widgets which are part of a tab set! Is this a
> known limitation/bug? Is there any work around, short of constantly
> destroying and recreating the entire tab set?

You can only map/unmap top-level base widgets.
One alternative to destroying/recreating is
to make that tab insensitive so that it can't
be used for anything. Of course, that may not
be what you want.

Cheers,

David

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