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Windows XP in a Nutshell
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Windows XP in a Nutshell

by David A. Karp, Tim O'Reilly, Troy Mott
April 2002
Beginner
640 pages
27h 54m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Tabbed Dialogs

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Tabs are used in dialog boxes when there are too many settings to fit on the same page. (See Figure 3-32.)

Settings in dialog boxes like this one are often divided into separate Tabs; the OK and Apply buttons apply to all tabs simultaneously

Figure 3-32. Settings in dialog boxes like this one are often divided into separate Tabs; the OK and Apply buttons apply to all tabs simultaneously

Activate a tab by clicking on it. The active tab (or page) is visibly more prominent than the rest, and the displayed settings typically fall within the category depicted by the caption of the selected tab.

The rule, when changing settings in a dialog box, is that all settings behave as though they were all on the same page. That is, if you change a setting under one tab, switch to another tab and change a setting there, and then click OK, both settings will be implemented. Unfortunately, some application developers don’t follow these rules. Sometimes the tab selection itself is a setting; in the example above, this means that only one of these settings would be implemented and the other would be lost. The other problem occurs when settings are saved when you flip between tabs.

Press Ctrl-Tab to move to the next tabbed page or Shift-Ctrl-Tab to move in reverse.

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