Stacking Tabs Menu?

bentraje

Hi,

Is there a way to have stacking tabs the same way the attribute manager? (Not sure what's it really called)
Currently, with my code, it doesn't stack when I hold the Shift key. It just goes to the next tab.

You can see the illustration of the problem here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fx185im9r5i4b6g/c4d199_stacking_tabs_gui.mp4?dl=0

You can check the working code (in a .pyp file) here:

import c4d
from c4d import gui, plugins, bitmaps, utils, documents 

PLUGIN_ID = 9201239 

class TabDialog(gui.GeDialog): 

    def CreateLayout(self):
        self.TabGroupBegin(id=5555, flags=c4d.BFH_LEFT, tabtype=c4d.TAB_TABS)


        self.GroupBegin(id=1031, flags=c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT, cols=1, rows=4, title="Tab1") 
        self.AddStaticText(id=1041, flags=c4d.BFH_LEFT, initw=275, name="Stack Tab1", borderstyle=c4d.BORDER_NONE) 
        self.GroupEnd() 

        self.GroupBegin(id=1035, flags=c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT, cols=1, rows=4, title="Tab2") 
        self.AddStaticText(id=1045, flags=c4d.BFH_LEFT, initw=275, name="Stack Tab2", borderstyle=c4d.BORDER_NONE) 
        self.GroupEnd() 

         
        return True     


    def Command(self, id, msg):

        if id == 12345:
            pass

        return True


class TabMenu(plugins.CommandData):
    dialog = None

    def Execute(self, doc):
       if self.dialog is None: 
          self.dialog = TabDialog() 
       return self.dialog.Open(dlgtype=c4d.DLG_TYPE_ASYNC, pluginid=PLUGIN_ID, defaultw=200, defaulth=150, xpos=-1, ypos=-1) 

    def RestoreLayout(self, sec_ref): 
    # manage the dialog 
       if self.dialog is None: 
          self.dialog = MyDialog() 
       return self.dialog.Restore(pluginid=PLUGIN_ID, secret=sec_ref) 


if __name__ == "__main__": 
 
    okyn = plugins.RegisterCommandPlugin(PLUGIN_ID, "Stack Tab Menu",0, None, "Stack Tab Menu", TabMenu())   
    if (okyn):  
        print "Stack Tab Menu Test"

Is such a feature available for the GeDialog?

r_gigante

Hi bentraje, thanks for reaching out us.

With regard to your issue, I recommend to have a look at the QuicktabCustomGui which actually delivers the desired behavior.

You can also find on our GitHub repo the customgui_quicktab_r19.py example showing how to make good use of it.

Best, Riccardp

bentraje

Hi @r_gigante
Thanks for the response. I tried the sample script you referred but unfortunately it doesn not stack.
When hold shift, it just goes to another tab and so on.

Is there a way around this?

r_gigante

Hi bentraje, you have to set to False the value for the QUICKTAB_NOMULTISELECT in the BaseContainer used to store the QuickTabGui parameters.
This will allow you to have multiple tabs being selectable and then display the corresponding groups based on the list of items being selected.

Best, R

bentraje

@r_gigante

Thanks for the response. I changed it and it does select both tabs but it does not stack them. You can see an illustration here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gzuoy0c2fal1xg1/c4d199_stacking_tabs_gui02.mp4?dl=0

In addition, as in the code above, I'm using TabGroupBegin to set tabs. Is it possible with stacking tabs? Or does it have to be QuickTabCustomGui for it to work?

There's no QUICKTAB_NOMULTISELECT parameter for the TabGroupBegin section.

r_gigante

Hi bentraje, the logic of displaying the content of both should be adapted in the DisplayCorrectGroup function which, standing on the current implementation on GitHub, only consider one Group. Extending to get it working for more than one should be trivial.

With regard to the "stacked" tabs functionality, as said above, you can get it working with QuickTabCustomGui in GeDialogs.

Cheers, R

bentraje

@r_gigante

Thanks for the response.

RE: Extending to get it working for more than one should be trivial.
Unfortunately, the whole code is trivial to me being novice.
Anyhow, I guess I'll just learn on QuickTabCustomGui on a separate thread.

RE: With regard to the "stacked" tabs functionality, as said above
Yes, you did. I was wondering if there is an option for the TabGroupBegin as that is somewhat straight forward to me rather than the QuickTabCustomGui.

So I guess, this confirms that it is not possible for the TabGroupBegin.

Again, no further action required. Will just open another thread for the QuickTabCustomGui.