[info-mcl] Tab views

[Terje Norderhaug]

On Sep 6, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Octav Popescu wrote:
> That's much better, it doesn't crash anymore, but the look is not  
> quite good. See in the first attached capture what the example in  
> multi-pane-view looks like. Seems to me like the top and bottom  
> lines of the tab view are reversed.

This might be possible to fix through the orientation argument to  
#_HiThemeDrawTabPane, substituting #$kHIThemeOrientationNormal with # 
$kHIThemeOrientationInverted. Let me know how it works out.

> More important, this is not the standard tab aspect in OS X 10.5.  
> You can see in the second capture what they look like in one of the  
> System Preferences panes. Any chance to make it look that way? I  
> don't know if that look is available in Carbon though. Here's the  
> HIG page that talks about it:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/UserExperience/Conceptual/ 
> AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGControls/chapter_19_section_7.html

The style of the tabs can be controlled through the :version  
attribute of the :HIThemeTabDrawInfo record passed to  
#_HiThemeDrawTextBox as inDrawInfo. Setting :version to 1 makes the  
tabs appear as segmented controls (modern appearance) while  
a :version of 0 produces traditional tabs (legacy appearance). The  
clipping or size of the tab view will have to be changed to make  
segmented controls fit.

-- Terje