Initializes the BTab to be enabled, but neither selected nor the current focus. The specified tabView becomes the tab's target view—when the tab is selected, its target view is activated. See the BTabView class for further details on how this works.

If an archive message is specified, the message's contents are used to duplicate the archived BTab object.

See also: SetView()

Frees all memory the BTab allocated. If there is a target view assigned to the tab, it is removed from the parent window and deleted.

These three functions can be implemented by your BTab-derived class to create a new visual appearance for your application's tabs. The owner is the BView in which your tab is being drawn, and the frame is the rectangle in which the tab is to be drawn.

The DrawFocusMark() function draws the mark indicating that the BTab object is in focus. By default, this consists of a line in the keyboard navigation color, drawn across the bottom of the tab's frame rectangle.

DrawTab() is called to draw the tab. It draws the tab's title by calling DrawLabel(), then renders the lines to create the tab itself. The position of the tab may affect how the tab is rendered—for example, if the tab is frontmost, it may have a different appearance than the other tabs.

If full is true, the complete tab is drawn inside the frame rectangle. If full is false, the right side of the tab is being obscured by the tab to its left, so the right edge should be eliminated or truncated as necessary.

Calls the inherited version of Archive() and stores the BTab in the BMessage archive.

See also: BArchivable::Archive(), Instantiate() static function

The IsEnabled() function returns the true if the tab is enabled (and can therefore be selected by the user) or false if the tab is disabled.

SetEnabled() is called to enable or disable the tab. Pass a value of true to enable the tab, or false to disable it.

The IsSelected() function returns true if the tab is currently selected, false if it's not.

Deselect() is called to deselect the tab. This removes the tab's target view from the owner window by calling the target view's RemoveSelf() function.

Select() is called to select the tab. This also adds the tab's target view to the specified owner view. This is called after the previously selected tab's Deselect() function is called.

The Label() function returns the tab's label. The label is the same as the target view's name.

SetLabel() is called to set the tab's label. This also changes the target view's name to match the tab's label, if a target view exists.

Note

If the tab doesn't have a target view, SetLabel() does nothing. Make sure a target view has been set (by calling SetView(), BTabView::AddTab() with a valid target view argument, or in the BTab constructor) before you call SetLabel().

IsFocus() returns true if the tab is the current focus or false if it is not.

MakeFocus() specifies whether or not the tab is the current focus. Pass true to make the tab the current focus, or false if you don't want it to be the focus.

The View() function returns the tab's target view.

SetView() is called to set the tab's target view to the specified view.

Returns a new BTab object, allocated by new and created with the version of the constructor that takes a BMessage archive. However, if the message doesn't contain archived data for a BTab, Instantiate() returns NULL.

See also: BArchivable::Instantiate(), instantiate_object(), Archive()