detect if form is in tabpanel?

Classic Servoy
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Is it possible to detect (in a form event method) if the form is being loaded into a tabpanel of a parent form?

2

I guess you can use currentcontroller.getName() to get the main formname and compare that with controller.getName().

Hope this helps.

3

too easy,

I thought I had already tried it, but it seems I hadn’t, thanks!

4

Hi guys, I need the same, but I can’t use currentcontroller, because the form, where the tabpanel is on, is not the currentcontroller (the form is loaded into a splitpanel again)

So form A is loaded in a tabpanel on form B (and sometimes on form C, D, E etc…)
I need to know on which form A is loaded in tabpanel (B, D, E, etc…)

any ideas??

5

I just use a global var and set it on the OnShow each time I enter a given Tab/Form. Works fine.

6

I dont get it.

how do you detect, that Form A, is loaded in a tabpanel on form B?

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I load my global var in three possible places:

  1. OnLoad Event to get initial context for the global
  2. OnShow Event (case: traps user changes and update global var)
  3. Custom code (case: if I programmatically change what form is housed by a given tab panel)

Maybe I misunderstood your question/situation …

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yes I think so ;-)

I simple can’t know, that form A, is loaded in a tabpanel on form B.

We are gonna use form A in all kinds of other forms (in a tabpanel)
sometimes set fixed, or set by method.

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Okay … I don’t fully understand your scenario … I thought there was perhaps a common point when/where a Form is loaded and a global var could be set (in my case I went with a global that showed the current tab panel and another one for the form … in effect, it became a “listener” for the current tab container and form independent of everything else.

Hope it works out ok :-)

Michael

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No, I just spoke to Jan Blok, by chat, and he is confirming that it is not possible right now, what I want.

I have filed a feature request into the support system