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Does anyone know or has worked with windows tabbed windows by calling the relevent dll?

I am looking to try some new project and would like a multitabbed screen but I am unsure as to where to start. Any guidance would be most welcome.

Synergy






pro 6, win2000

Depends what you are trying to do, but you could create a tabbed effect in Opus
If you create a button, you can add a tab look, by selecting properties, border, then tick the add border box. scroll down the top selection box to Tabs.
The Tabs could be added to a master page and a bit of scripting to bring the selected tab to the top, or move it up to be visible.
When you click on a tab, it just goes to a new page.
If you find a DLL to do it, how do you add active content to the tab pages??



Sandy

If you could do what you want in HTML, there are a number of tabbed window scripts using JavaScript and CSS out there in cyberspace. Then you'd just put your HTML content in a browser object and you could have tabbed "windows".

SandyN --

As a slight aside to the main topic here, I want to thank you for pointing out the OPUS ability to convert a Button Object into a Tab appearance (Properties ->Border->Tabs). I had forgotten about this feature. I'm working on a small Pub, and this menu system is perfect to give it a different look. I can take a tab looking Button, and rotate it 90 degrees so my tabs are on the right side of my Master Page. I inserted all the Buttons/tabs into a Frame which stays hidden until you click a single "Menu" Button, then the Frame does a Zoom Left to appear.

Thank you!

My guess is that this is on the resource update, because I don't see Tabs as a choice?

Brian --

Knowing you use OPUS extensively, I'm surprised you haven't upgraded to OPUS v6. There is no reason to stay at 5.5. Version 6 is outstanding, and it has the Tab effects under Borders. I dug out my old 5.5 and you are correct, you don't have this new feature. This makes a Button Object look like any one of 23 different types of tabs like you see on file folders. This is a fabulous effect under Borders.

I highly recommend you upgrade to OPUS v6. There are many other new features you are currently missing by staying at v5.5. There are NO compatibility issues when you open v5.? Pubs in v6. Wait until you see what the new Buttons look like. You have the option to use "Classic" looks like you have in 5.5, but in v6 you have several styles of Buttons which you will really appreciate.

Fred,

I had to jump off the bandwagon a bit due to SCORM issues. Needless to say, I still use OPUS for things I can when I need to create something quckly and easily, but the SCORM thing is, and was, always a huge issue for me. I truly think DW missed a gigantic opportunity but not applying their ease of use touch to SCORM publishing. Now, they'd be hard pressed to keep up with Lectora. Oh well.

Thanks for the information on version 6.0. If I could justify the upgrade cost on the projects I use it for, then I would gladly do so.