Comments on: Script Triggers: Monitoring and Restoring Tabs

By: Armin Stross-Radschinski

Armin Stross-Radschinski — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:07:36 +0000

The script from Jonathan Stark is awesome simple to implement. But there is still something to Do if you have the same layout open in different windows depending of your experienced user workflow.

By: Oolfanska

Oolfanska — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:32:18 +0000

To anyone looking for the blog & file mentioned by Jonathan Stark, 4-1-2009, I tracked it down at http://jonathanstark.com/blog/2009/04/01/using-script-triggers-to-restore-active-tabs-in-filemaker/ .

By: Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:14:41 +0000

Using the above techniques, is there a way of going to Layout mode and returning to the SAME tab you left in Browse rather than the “default” tab?

By: Scott Karlins

Scott Karlins — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:41:54 +0000

Great blog post! Was wracking my brain trying to figure out how to have Form View on one tab, and List view on another tab.

Worked a treat!
Thank you, Scott

By: CarlD

CarlD — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:54:35 +0000

Help, this trick is working kinda crappy in FM11 (Windows XP). If I include a “New Window” command in my triggered script, the layout in the new window displays the default tab. Can anyone think of a possible workaround?

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:23:16 +0000

great technique. however, i am finding that there is a visible delay in switching to the non-default tab. I have 2 tabs with portals. the go to object script step doesn’t seem to fire until the portal is visible. any suggestions?

By: Robin Boast

Robin Boast — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:16:34 +0000

Sorry to bother you with this, but I have a script identical to the script in your “Which Tab” section, but for tab names, and I can’t get it to do anything in FMP 11 Advanced. I have set the trigger on my tab bar, and named my tab objects, but nothing happens. I also can’t get a field to return anything when asking for Get ( ActiveLayoutObjectName ). Please help.
Thanks.

By: RichT

RichT — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:30:50 +0000

seems like a simple way to make it work for muti layout would be with a repeating varable set using Get(LayoutNumber) Like this

Set Variable [ $$FRONT_TAB[Get(LayoutNumber)];
Case(
GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “myFirstTab”, “isFrontTabPanel” ); “First tab is in front”;
GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “mySecondTab”, “isFrontTabPanel” ); “Second tab is in front”;
GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “myThirdtTab”, “isFrontTabPanel” ); “Third tab is in front”
)
]

Then Call it back the same way ….

If [ Not IsEmpty($$FRONT_TAB[Get(LayoutNumber)]) ]
Go to Object [ $$FRONT_TAB[Get(LayoutNumber)] ]
End If

By: Jerry Beck

Jerry Beck — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:35:53 +0000

got it.

Case(
GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “tabone”; “isFrontTabPanel” ); “tabone”;
GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “tabtwo”; “isFrontTabPanel” ); “tabtwo”;
GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “tabthree”; “isFrontTabPanel” ); “tabthree”
)

I need this to return to the “same tab” location from many tables and did not want to hard code each return.

Jerry

By: Jerry Beck

Jerry Beck — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:49:19 +0000

I wish I could tell you the number of hours I have tried to get this to work, it's beyond beyond. Set Variable [ $$frnt_tab; Value:Case( GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "insp.prgm" ;"isFrontTabPanel"); GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "insp.insp" ;"isFrontTabPanel"); GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "insp.task" ;"isFrontTabPanel"); GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "insp.task.mod" ;"isFrontTabPanel"); GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( "insp.scrtch" ;"isFrontTabPanel") ) ] data viewer keeps showing me; 0 or 1, not the text value of the object named tabs, "insp.prgm", "insp.insp" etc. The Attribute "isFrontTabPanel" under GetLayoutObjectAttribute supports this. "isFrontTabPanel - returns 1 (True) if the target object is the tab panel that is in front" What am I not seeing? Jerry