Tab Control for Template UI

[crus007]

We use MyGeneration with Sub Templates which generates BO's SP's and DAC's for our application in different templates.

For this purpose we need to setup common and specific configuration. We thought about by having the whole configuration UI on the master template which calls the sub templates.

The challenge we have is that the number of configuration items on the UI grows and the UI screen looks a little bit ugly.

If we could use a tab control we can group the UI configuration items on tab pages and the screen hopefully looks nicer ;o)

[dnparsons]

Have you seen this?
http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/TemplateLibrary/Archive/?guid=e38b4cdb-a62d-4d3d-9084-a43ff25d9056
Full Blown Embedded System.Windows.Forms user interface.

[crus007]

Cheers,

I will take a closer look.

[mike.griffin]

Also. Remember. You can set coordinates on the controls too. Look at the new BETA Gentle.NET Business Entity BETA $Rev: 903 $ templates ui.

[mike.griffin]

Read my post above first. There is also something called a \"Template Group\". Try this. Create a new template. Go to the template properties and change the type from \"Template\" to \"Group\" then you can add a bunch of subtemplates the box below. This doesn't help on the Tab Control issue but it is a way to create a single UI and have the variables be there for all sub templates. The master template becomes a UI only.

[justin.greenwood]

I've added a really simple change to the API to allow for tabs. They work like this:

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ui.AddTab(\"First Page\");
ui.AddTextBox(\"tbControl1\", \"\", \"\");

ui.AddTab(\"Second Page\");
ui.AddTextBox(\"tbControl2\", \"\", \"\")


That code will put a textbox on 2 seperate tabs. There is no tab control, but you can spread your form out now easily across multiple tabs with very little code. It will be out with the next 1.1.x release