Fine-tuning tab panel appearance

Classic Servoy
1

Hello,

I’m trying to set a form to a ligh blue background color with a tab panel that shows forms of a different background color. There is an area directly within the tab panel that I can’t seem to control… it’s showing up as a slightly darker blue. I’d just like it to be gray, the same color as the nested form. Please take a look at the attached image. Any way to control the color of that area?

Thanks,

Andrew

Picture 1.png
Picture 1.png777×477 13.6 KB

2

amason:
Hello,

I’m trying to set a form to a ligh blue background color with a tab panel that shows forms of a different background color. There is an area directly within the tab panel that I can’t seem to control… it’s showing up as a slightly darker blue. I’d just like it to be gray, the same color as the nested form. Please take a look at the attached image. Any way to control the color of that area?

Thanks,

Andrew

Try to set the border of the form you’re showing to NONE.

3

Hi Andrew,

The colour of the area inside the tabpanel can’t be set seperatly.
For the Mac OS X Look and Feel I can understand that you would want this but for any other LAF this is a non-issue.

If you want to have full control I suggest you set the tabpanel as hidden and create your own look and feel (images, etc).

Hope this helps.

4

I have done some testing (again). Unless you want to hack the os x laf there is no way to use anything other than the methods provided to us by Servoy. This is really a look and feel thing and has nothing to do with Servoy and or Java…

5

This is also an issue with pop-up menus on the mac as well (the field border shows and looks crappy with the mac “bubble” list).

To get around this - I use two style sheets - one for Mac and one for everything else. I create a tabpanel style and a field style (I call my pop-up menu style “combo”) - and then I set the background to transparent on the mac style sheet, and have no definition on the windows sheet.

That won’t really help your particular problem - as that is 100% Mac LAF issue, but I hope it helps in other cases.

6

and then I set the background to transparent on the mac style sheet

Bob, how exactly do you do that in a style? In the Reference I read that for background-color “transparent” is a possible value. So in my style I have

field
{
   background-color: transparent;
}

This, however, seems to have no effect!? Could you shed some light on this?

Thanks
Patrick

7

Check your objects and make sure that the “transparent” property is NOT set on the object. Then it should work.

8

I don’t think it does. I have tried all combinations. I guess I will “file” that one. But I double check tomorrow.