From: Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...>
Date: 2008-02-05T18:13:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk/Iwidgets tabnotebook (and scrollbar)

From: Karl Miller <karl.miller.km@gmail.com>
Subject: Ruby/Tk/Iwidgets tabnotebook (and scrollbar)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:55:26 +0900
Message-ID: <870d25c134b16e7234d146b03c43a1df@ruby-forum.com>
> I've created an iwidgets tabnotebook, with a large number of tabs,
> and attached a scrollbar.
> 
> Moving the scroll bar successfully moves back and forth amongst pages,
> but the subset of tabs displayed does not change.
    (snip)
> Am I doing something wrong?

You must control start position of the tabset.

> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> require 'tk'
> require 'tkextlib/iwidgets'
> 
> # Create the tabnotebook widget and pack it.
> tn = Tk::Iwidgets::Tabnotebook.new(:width=>300, :height=>100)
> tn.pack(:anchor=>:nw, :fill=>:both, :expand=>true,
>         :side=>:top, :padx=>10, :pady=>0)
> 
> # Add twenty pages to the tabnotebook
> 1.upto(20) { |t|
>     txt = 'Page ' + t.to_s
>     tn.add(:label => txt)
> }

# Command to control the tabset
tabset = tn.component_widget('tabset')
tabset.command{|idx|
  left = tabset.tabcget(idx, :left)
  prev = tabset.index(idx) - 1
  if prev < 0
    tabset.start = 0
  elsif left < 0
    tabset.start -= left
  elsif left + (tabwidth = tabset.tabcget(idx,:width)) > (tabset_width = tabset.width)
    tabset.start -= left - tabset_width + 2*(left - tabset.tabcget(prev,:left)) - tabwidth + 1
  end
}

> # Add a button on page 1 to change to tab 20
> button = TkButton.new(tn.child_site(0),:text =>'Go to Page 20').pack
> button.command {
>     tn.select(19)       # tn.view etc have the same problem
> }
> 
> # Select the first page of the tabnotebook.
> tn.select(0)
> 
> # Create the scrollbar
> # and the notebook together, then pack the scrollbar
> tn.xscrollbar(TkScrollbar.new).pack(:fill=>:x,
>                                     :expand=>true, :padx=>10)
> 
> Tk.mainloop

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Hidetoshi NAGAI (nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp)