Re: Upgraded tabbed_pane_widget

For the archives...

Christian Boulanger wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> Can you help me with the tabbed_pane_widget? I am trying to generate it
> programmatically,
> With no success so far. I tried 

I responded yesterday to this very question in a reply to the
"Programatically constructing..." thread. I'll assume your email is a
little delayed.

For the most part I think already answered everything you need to do to
do this programatically. The only thing I did is I didn't pass a DOM
Node to the factory function. If you don't pass a DOM Node, you'll have
to insert the widget DOM Node into the HTML Document in the location
where you want the tabbed pane to appear.

> tabbed_pane = new NW_WIDGET_tabbed_pane(right_pane,"100%","100%");
Don't pass percentages. I don't believe the widget strips off non digit
characters. I think it'll confuse the constructor logic. This should 
really be documented or fixed.

> var startTab = new NW_WIDGET_tab_ds("Introduction", "start.html");
> startTab.getFromURL();
This part is correct.

> tabbed_pane.createTab(startTab);
This is not needed. Just addTab(startTab) and your tab will be added.

> var tabNode = document.createElement("div");
> var tabd = new NW_WIDGET_tab_ds("name", null, tabNode);
> tabbed_pane.addTab(tabd);
> 
> But nothing shows up. How do I have to do it? Maybe you can post the
> solution to the list.

The only thing I left out of the last email is that it appears that you
need to call the init() method on the tabbed_pane for it to initialize
before it will display anything.

Try the following:

var tabbed_pane = NW_WIDGET_FACTORY_tabbed_pane(right_pane,"500","300");
var startTab = new NW_WIDGET_tab_ds("Introduction", "start.html");
startTab.getFromURL();
tabbed_pane.add(startTab);
tabbed_pane.init();


After looking at this code again there's actually some stuff in this 
widget that should probably be cleaned up some. When I get some time 
I'll revisit this code to clean it up and develop a more comprehensive 
test page for it so there's some more examples on how to use it 
properly. Don't expect this to happen within the next 2-3 weeks though.


--Michael





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