Tab Strip Show Selected Tab

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If I set the selectedTab of a Tab Strip, but that tab is not currently on the screen because I have too many tabs to show on one screen, is there a way to set focus to that tab so that the user can see it is selected.

Currently it remains off screen so very confusing to user.

2

setting the selected tab property will make the tab that navigates to that window selected.

3

I was looking for a solution to this recently and ended up writing a small script to achieve it.
I don’t know if it’s the best solution but it works for me. Call the below script in the PropertyChange event (filtered for selectedTab property) for the Tab Strip component.

# Shift the tab strip so the selected tab appears in view (when there are too many tabs to show at once).
# The Tab Strip component should be passed in to the 'tabs' parameter. 
def showSelectedTab(tabs):
	cmpnts = tabs.getComponents()
	offset = cmpnts[0]
	pnl = cmpnts[1]
	
	x = 0
	w = 0
	for c in pnl.getComponents():
		if c.isSelected():
			x = c.getX()
			w = c.getWidth()
			break
	
	tabsW = (tabs.width - offset.width)
	os = offset.getCurrentOffset()
	maxos = pnl.width - tabsW
	if maxos < 0:
		maxos = 0
		
	if x < os:
		os = x
		offset.setCurrentOffset(os)
		tabs.revalidate()
	elif x + w > os + tabsW:
		os = x - (tabsW - w)
		if os > maxos:
			os = maxos
		offset.setCurrentOffset(os)
		tabs.revalidate()
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