Getting tab name of a tabpanel

[Anthony_Marino]

MACOS 10.12.6; XOJO 2017 r2.1

How can I do that? I checked the docs but didn’t see any property I could access. I can get the name of the tabpanel itself, but I can’t see how to get a particular tab’s name (that the user selected)

TIA, Tony

[Norman_P]

Tabs dont have names
They do have captions

[DaveS]

If you wish to know what panel the user has selected, use the built-in properties of the tabpanel as detailed in the language referenece documents.

PagePanel.Value
Property (As Integer)
aPagePanel.Value = newIntegerValue
or
IntegerValue = aPagePanel.Value
The number of the currently selected page. The first page is number zero.

[Tim_Hare]

I created a tabpanel subclass that I use in all my apps where I set the name of each tab and refer to them by name instead of value/index. It makes the code independent of the order of the tabs. And a lot more readable. I do the same thing for listbox columns as well.

[Richard_Duke]

@354422:@Tim Hare

I created a tabpanel subclass that I use in all my apps where I set the name of each tab and refer to them by name instead of value/index. It makes the code independent of the order of the tabs. And a lot more readable. I do the same thing for listbox columns as well.

hi tim, i would love to know how you give it a name for the tab panel or a name for the listbox column.

[Tim_Hare]

It’s basically just a string array and a bunch of convenience methods that take a string instead of an index. Nothing magical, but it makes the code a lot cleaner. It allows you to reorder the columns without having to change column numbers all over your code.