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Products / Tips & Tricks for better User Interface of FileMaker Pro solutions

Tab Control

FileMaker Pro 8 introduced a new layout object type called Tab Control. At first sight it looks like a great space saver. At second sight, tab control seems to be under full control of user, not developer. Until you activate your imagination...

  Scripted Tab Control          Download

This example demonstrates how a few tricks can easily give the control back to developer, pushing limits of the FileMaker's Pro built-in functionality. Featured tricks include: dynamic tab names, Go to Tab, Get ( ActiveTab )


Type: freeware



  Nested Tabs          Download

This example demonstrates how you can nest another tab control in a tab control's tab to implement a multi-level hierarchical navigation within a single layout. If you are clever enough, you can make your solution's user interface extremely efficient. Just please do not be as crazy as this example, or you can easily get used to hear words like "seriously mad" quite often from your users. ;-)


Type: freeware




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Item   Notes   Files
Nested Tabs   Mac OS X, Windows, 72 KB, freeware   NestedTabs.sit
        NestedTabs.zip
Scripted Tab Control   Mac OS X, Windows, 74 KB, freeware   ScriptedTabControl.sit
        ScriptedTabControl.zip