Tab Panel Heading Variables

[brett.elston]

Hi,

I am wondering if there is a way to add a variable output field to a tab panel heading?

I have a screen with multiple tabs and each panel has contains a subfile. I would like to add a record counter next to each panel heading so the user can at a glance tell which tabs need to be actioned.

I could obviously add counters to the "header" portion of my screen, outside of the tab panel, but would prefer something like: - Heading 1 (12), Heading 2 (4), Heading 3 (0) for example.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Regards

Brett

P.S. I like the addition of a spell checker in your forum posting screens.

[Scott Klement]

The 'tab names' property controls this. You can bind a variable to this property and fill it in in your RPG program.

This variable controls the name of all the tabs, as a comma-separated list. So for example, if you had three tabs, you'd do something like this in your RPG program to the variable that is bound to the tab names property:

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tabNames = 'Heading 1,Heading 2,Heading 3';

Or, to put a variable in there, you could do:

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tabNames = 'Heading 1 (' + %char(count1) + '),'
         + 'Heading 2 (' + %char(count2) + '),'
         + 'Heading 3 (' + %char(count3) + ')';

Hope that helps

[brett.elston]

Thank you Scott,
Obviously I was not thinking clearly - using a variable for tab header works perfectly.