Posted: March 21 2004 at 15:07 | IP Logged

Hi,

does anyone know if it is possible to have a button on the control center that can switch to a different tab?

As an example, my main tab that has control for most of my devices is full up, so I want to add a button that simulates pressing the mouse on say the DVD control tab. The reason I want to do this is that my system is a touch screen and I want nice large buttons.

Many thanks

Phil

Posted: March 21 2004 at 15:46 | IP Logged

Phil,

You can use the formula ph_setcctab from a macro to set the tab, ph_getcctab will return the value of the current tab. I set up two buttons to scroll back and forth through the tabs by reading the current value and adding to or subtracting from it. By putting a min-max value in the macro you can allow the scrolling to wrap around.

Exp:

Pressing a button named -> calls a macro which adds 1 to the value in ph_getcctab. If the value is less than or equal to a global variable I named maxtabs I pass the value to the ph_setcctab formula, if not I send a 1 which takes me back to tab 1.

Pressing a button named <- calls a macro which subtracts 1 from the value in ph_getcctab. If the value is greater than or equal to one I pass it to ph_setcctab, otherwise I send the value of my maxtabs global which jumps to the highest tab number.

Good luck..

SA

Posted: March 21 2004 at 15:59 | IP Logged

Thanks Steve, I can understand your method here, will give it a go later.

Phil