DgsCreateTab

This function creates a tab on a pre-existing tab panel. A tab is a button as well as a 'dimension' that can be used to switch between information by clicking on the tabs. Tabs are sorted on a tab panel in the order that they are created.

Syntax

element dgsCreateTab ( string text, element parent [,int scalex = 1, int scaley = 1, int textcolor = 0xFFFFFFFF, element bgimg = nil, int bgcolor = 0x000000C8, element tabdefimg = nil, element tabhovimg = nil, element tabcliimg = nil, int tabdefcolor = 282828B4, int tabhovcolor = 0x505050BE, int tabclicolor = 0X000000C8])

Required Arguments

Example tab panel with two tabs.

text: The caption for the tab
parent: The parent tab panel, as a tab panel element type

Optional Arguments

scalex: A float of the 2D x scale of the text of the tab.
scaley: A float of the 2D y scale of the text of the tab.
bgimg: An image element of the background image of the panel of the tab.
bgcolor: An integer of the background color of the panel of the tab.
tabdefimg: An image element of the background image of the tab (default state).
tabhovimg: An image element of the background imag of the tab (hovered state).
tabcliimg: An image element of the background image of the tab (clicked state).
tabdefcolor: An integer of the background color of the tab (default state).
tabselcolor: An integer of the background color of the tab (hovered state).
tabclicolor: An integer of the background color of the tab (clicked state).

Returns

Returns a dgs-dxtab element if successful, false otherwise.

Example

This example creates a information window and adds two tabs to a "tabPanel" tabpanel, and adds some other dgs elements to it.

DGS = exports.dgs
local myWindow = DGS:dgsCreateWindow ( 0, 0, 0.5, 0.4, "Information", true )--create a window which has "Information" in the title bar.
local tabPanel = DGS:dgsCreateTabPanel ( 0, 0.1, 1, 1, true, myWindow ) --create a tab panel which fills the whole window
local tabMap = DGS:dgsCreateTab( "Map Information", tabPanel ) -- create a tab named "Map Information" on 'tabPanel'
local tabHelp = DGS:dgsCreateTab( "Help", tabPanel ) -- create another tab named "Help" on 'tabPanel'

-- adds a label (text) to each tab
DGS:dgsCreateLabel(0.02,0.04,0.94,0.2,"This is information about the current map",true,tabMap)
DGS:dgsCreateLabel(0.02,0.04,0.94,0.92,"This is help text.",true,tabHelp)

Multi Language Supports

Animation

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Arrow List

Browser

dgsCreateBrowser

Button

dgsCreateButton

Check Box

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Edit

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Detect Area

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Image

Memo

Label

Progress Bar

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Plugin

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Color Picker

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