Re: [Tile-dev] Breakthrough! Proper tabs on OSX!

[Will D. <Wil...@jp...>]

Cool!

Will

On Oct 30, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Joe English wrote:

>
> Will Duquette wrote:
>>
>> When you implement variant notebook styles, please include
>> an option of no tabs at all, like the BWidget PagesManager.
>> It's a need I run into regularly, and though the PagesManager
>> works OK it's annoying to have to use a megawidget when
>> ttk::notebook does everything right.  Also, with PagesManager
>> there's a call you have to make after all of the pages are
>> defined so that it can compute the maximum size of any page;
>> ttk::notebook just does this right, with no fuss.
>>
>> I asked for this once before, and you declined, saying it
>> was easy enough to do in Tcl, which it is; but it's one of
>> those things that has to be done exactly right.  I think
>> we'd get better GOOBE if ttk::notebook simply provided the
>> behavior.
>
> BTW, ttk::notebook has been able to do this since around 0.7.6:
> you can now say:
>
>     style theme settings default {
> 	style layout Plain.TNotebook.Tab null
>     }
>
> and a [ttk::notebook] with -style Plain.TNotebook won't
> show any tabs.
>
> See also:
>
>     <URL: http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/repos/themebag/groupbox.tcl >
>
> for a Snit megawidget that implements an Aqua-style "group box"
> (that's like a notebook controlled by a menubutton), which uses
> this technique.
>
> --Joe English
>
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