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The TABSTRIP2 control is used to navigate through certain aspects of your application. The way you navigate depends completely on your implementation.

Note:
TABSTRIP2 is a wrapper around the TABSTRIP control which was available with previous releases. In the TABSTRIP control, you had to do quite a lot of references to adapter properties that are now replaced by one TABSTRIPInfo object. The TABSTRIP control is still supported.

The following topics are covered below:

• Example

• TABSTRIP2 - Usage with Other Controls

• Properties

Example

The control looks as follows:

For each aspect, there is one tab holding a name and an index. The left-most tab holds index 0, the next one 1, etc.

The XML layout definition is:

<page model="tabstripAdapter">
    <titlebar name="Simple programming of tab-strip-controls">
    </titlebar>
    <tabstrip2 tabstripprop="titletab" scrollable="false">
    </tabstrip2>
    <header withdistance="false">
        <button name="Exit">
        </button>
    </header>
    <pagebody>
        <rowarea name="Selection">
            <itr>
                <label name="Selected tab" width="120">
                </label>
                <field valueprop="selTabText">
                </field>
            </itr>
        </rowarea>
    </pagebody>
    <statusbar withdistance="false">
    </statusbar>
</page>

Note:
Whereas the ROWTABAREA and COLTABAREA controls explicitly open one container (TABPAGE) per tab, the TABSTRIP2 control is just a "tab line" itself without any container included.

The adapter class looks as follows:

import com.softwareag.cis.server.Adapter;
import com.softwareag.cis.server.util.TABSTRIPInfo;

// This class is a generated one.

public class tabstripAdapter
    extends Adapter
{
    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // inner classes
    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    public class TitleTABSTRIPInfo
    extends TABSTRIPInfo
    {
        public void reactOnTabSelection(int index)
        {
            m_selTabText = this.findSelectedItem().getName();

        }
    }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // property access
    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    // property >selTabText<
    String m_selTabText;
    public String getSelTabText() { return m_selTabText; }
    public void setSelTabText(String value) { m_selTabText = value; }

    // property >titletab<
    TABSTRIPInfo m_titletab = new TitleTABSTRIPInfo();
    public TABSTRIPInfo getTitletab() { return m_titletab; }
    public void setTitletab(TABSTRIPInfo value) { m_titletab = value; }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // standard adapter methods
    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /** initialisation - called when creating this instance*/
    public void init()
    {
        m_titletab.addItem("First"); // tab 0
        m_titletab.addItem("Second"); // tab 1
        m_titletab.addItem("Third"); // tab 2
        m_titletab.selectTab(0);
    }
}

The TABSTRIP2 control is represented by a TABSTRIPInfo object on the server side. You see that a subclass of its own is generated (TitleTABSTRIPInfo) in which the method reactOnTabSelection(...) is overwritten. This method is called when the user selects a tab.

The TitleTABSTRIPInfo object is initialised inside the init() method: there are corresponding methods for adding items and for selecting the one that represents the currently selected one. You can change the information behind this (e.g. the number of tabs to be shown) at any time - also at a later point in time, after initialisation. But: do not create new instances of the object, use the clear() method instead.

TABSTRIP2 - Usage with Other Controls

The TABSTRIP2 control may not only be used below the titlebar. It can also be arranged on top or below many other controls. The following example shows the usage together with a ROWAREA control:

The XML layout definition is:

<rowarea name="Info" height="200">
</rowarea>
<tabstrip2 tabstripprop="tabstrip" backgroundstyle="background-color: #FFFFFF">
</tabstrip2>

You see that the background style of the TABSTRIP2 control was explicitly set to white in order to fit into the coloring of the ROWAREA.

Properties

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