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Re: TabPanel headings

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Subject: Re: TabPanel headings
From: Don Jungk <rb@flippingdades.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:37:21 -0600
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> >
> > You must be using a Windows PC as that is the only place I've seen
> > this. It has never been a Mac option and Rb hasn't specialized on
> > any one platform for a while.
>
> Plus, it's a horrible user interface - when you click on the top row,
> the tab you've clicked on becomes the active one and "pulls" the
> entire row down to meet the top of the tab area. Very disconcerting
> to have buttons shift around underneath the cursor, and it's
> impossible to remember where they are; you keep having to read all
> the tabs to figure out which one to click on because they're never in
> the same spot.
>
> Eric Williams

It may not be an official way to solve this, but I did it once using 
pagepanels and bevel buttons to make my own tabs. I highlighted the selected 
tab and didn't rearrange them as is the standard on Windows. I thought it was 
much better this way.

Don

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