Creating Tabs dynamically

Hello:
Is it possible to dynamically add a new tab to a TAB control via code?
I'm trying to use ControlClone like this;

ControlClone(TAB_Control[1], TAB_Control[2])

but I get error

Thanks
Gus

Hello Gus

And the error is ???

If you don't need many new tabs you could just create them before hand and hide and display as TabControl[2] visible = False or True as required

Regards
Al

Hello Al:

This is the error I get:

The 'TAB_Dashboards[1]' object cannot be cloned.
Only the controls and the table columns can be cloned.

I'm using this code;
ControlClone(TAB_Dashboards[1], "New Tab")

trying to clone the first pane which already exists...

I'm already using the "Hiding" technique but I would like to get rid of a pre-fixed number of possible tabs....

Thanks
Gus

Hello Gus

I have never used ControlClone() before but I tried it out on a window with a tab control that has 6 tabs
The interesting thing is that the controlclone() function runs the tab init and other code before attempting to create the cloned tab.
Initially I placed the controlclone() function very early in the window init and it failed when processing the tab init code because other values were not available yet
I then placed it in the window "end of initialization" event and it worked ok. This would have been after all the existing controls were initialized.

I would experiment with the placement of the controlclone() command and have the debugger run on it when it activates to see what happens.

Regards
Al

yes you can... You have to define the tab control as dynamic for that, and there are specific instructions:

[help.windev.com]

Hello Argus

That may be the case but when I ran my test it was on a normal tab not a dynamic one.

Regards
Al

Hi,

I'm away from my Dev machine, but (apparently) you can convert it to dynamic using daynamictab property, then use TabOpen... and, this only works with WD.

Regards,
Darren.

Thanks Darren.

I actually need it for Webdev.

I will continue using the "hidden" tabs for now...

Regards;
Gus