give tabs color

Classic Servoy
1

I would like the feature of giving a tab (in tabpanel) a specific color.
What I mean is, giving color to the selected tab!

also the background color and forgroundcolor of the maintab are not working at all!

2

You can set the tab background and foreground color using:

elements.tabs_70.setTabBGColorAt(number, String)
elements.tabs_70.setTabFGColorAt(number, String)

Supply the number of tab to set, and the string of the color.

To color the currently selected tab - you need to add an “onShow” method to each of the forms in the tabpanel - and then have it reset the color of all tabs to the default color - then change the color of the correct tab.

I agree - it would be nice to have a property for “setCurrentTabBGColor” and “setCurrentTabFGColor”.

Bob Cusick

3

Trying the above suggestion, I am unable to affect the color of the currently selected tab in a tabpanel. Here is the onShow method attached to one of the forms:

//Load all records in the form (removes any limiting foundset)
controller.loadAllRecords();

//reset all tabs to default color , then set color of selected tab
forms.setup_panel.elements.tabs_70.setTabBGColorAt(1, null);
forms.setup_panel.elements.tabs_70.setTabBGColorAt(2, null);
forms.setup_panel.elements.tabs_70.setTabBGColorAt(3, null);
forms.setup_panel.elements.tabs_70.setTabBGColorAt(2, '#FFFFFF');

The unselected tabs change color, but the currently selected tab remains the default ‘selected’ color. Am I possibly up against a Look & Feel limitation? I am using the ‘Metal’ L&F in this case.

Steve In LA

4

Hi Steve,

I haven’t tried with the Metal LAF (don’t have it).

I use the bgColor property of tabs all the time with no problems (in Kunstoff or Windows LAF).

Bob Cusick

5

Hi everyone,
We experience a similar trouble with tabpanel, whatever we try we were unable to set a tabless tabpanel to be transparent.
(We use it to have contextual icon bars in custom controller, with transparent buttons and a texture[imagemedia])
Using 2.1.1 beta on Windows XP and OsX.