tab view disable?

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#1

Hi Folks,

I am trying to disable a tab while the status of the internet connection is not 8 (8 means online)


set visible of tab view item "item" of tab view "tab" of window "main" to true

is working fine, but when I am clicking on the tab, then this tab is empty - is there any way to make
it not clickable or to set enable to false instead of set visible false?

Thanks for your help,

Stefan

#2

I think this is quite easy: simply use on should select tab view item theObject tab view item tabViewItem and return false if you don’t want it to be shown when the internet status is not 8 and it was clicked:

on should select tab view item theObject tab view item tabViewItem
	if (internetStatus is not 8) and (name of tabViewItem is "item")) then return false
	return true
end should select tab view item

Hmm that’s difficult. I am afraid you will have to tell every single view/control of this tab view item what to do - here an attempt to disable as much elements as possible with a few lines:

	tell tab view item "item" of tab view "tab" of window "main"
		try
			set enabled of controls to newState
		end try
		repeat with uiEle in (split views & boxes & scroll views)
			tell uiEle
				try
					set enabled of views to newState
				on error errMsg
					set visible of views to newState
				end try
			end tell
		end repeat
	end tell

Regards

Dominik

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