Autoit-gui Tab Control

[alawoona]

I have written a gui that uses the Tab control. Is there anyway I can get the script to select a tab. The tabs have different names but are both identified as "Class: SysTabControl321 Text: " using window spy. So I cannot distinguish between them using the "text" paramater. I cannot find a GUI function that will select a tab.

Edited May 2, 2004 by alawoona

[alawoona]

thanks larry. . . can't see in front of my nose

Edited May 2, 2004 by alawoona

[CyberSlug]

You can use GUISendMsg / GUIReceiveMsg with tab controls.

I use the following (assume $tab is the tab's GUISetControl reference):

GUISendMsg($tab, $TCM_SETCURSEL, $n, 0) ;activates the Nth tab (first index is 0)

GUISendMsg($tab, $TCM_DELETEITEM, $n, 0) ;deletes the Nth tab

Here's a list of some values. You may need to look at the Windows API

to determine the proper parameters for GuiSendMsg....

$TCM_FIRST = 0x1300
$TCM_GETCURFOCUS= ($TCM_FIRST + 47)
$TCM_GETCURSEL  = ($TCM_FIRST + 11)
$TCM_DELETEITEM = ($TCM_FIRST + 8)
$TCM_SETCURFOCUS = ($TCM_FIRST + 48)
$TCM_SETCURSEL  = ($TCM_FIRST + 12)

I do not know the difference between 'CURSEL' and 'CURFOCUS' becuase the seem to have the same effect.

[Valik]

TCM_GETCURSEL - Determines the currently selected tab in a tab control.

TCM_GETCURFOCUS - Returns the index of the item that has the focus in a tab control.