Development of Tab controls

HI,
I want to develop an application where the UI should have tab controls, something like this http://jsptabcontrol.sourceforge.net/
i tried this but did not work.
can you please explainme how. along with what all to be downloded and the code snippet.
waiting for help.
Regards
Divya

Hi Divya,
If you analyse the link, this tabs are available with the help of JSPTabControl Tag Library.
There in the User Guide, they have mention how to use this taglib and configure it.
Additionally, they have provided the Download link, which will allow you to download this taglib.
Once you configure the downloaded .tld as per the instruction.
I think you'll be able to work it out.
Regards,
Prashil

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Using a TAB control on Fieldpoint (FP 2000) and Labview 7.1
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David Thomson wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I'm still coming up to speed with LV RT and had a question. I
> understand the general philosphy of separating the UI and the
> deterministic part of the RT engine, but haven't gotten around to fully
> implementing that yet. As a first step, I was using the front panel of
> the RT application to show all kinds of configuration info and live
> data. I put a tab control on that panel to organize it. However, when
> I download and run the program from my host to the RT chassis, the tab
> control is unresponsive and I can only interact and see those controls
> on the first tab.
> Is this a known limitation of RT (LV 7.0) - that you can only see
> and interact on the host with those controls that are visible when the
> program starts?
>
> TIA,
> Dave
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> David Thomson 303-499-1973 (voice and fax)
> Original Code Consulting [email protected]
> www.originalcode.com
> National Instruments Alliance Program Member
> Certified LabVIEW Developer
> Certified Instrument Driver Developer
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Research Scientist 303-497-3470 (voice)
> NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory 303-497-5373 (fax)
> Boulder, Colorado [email protected]
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary,
> and those who don't.
>
>
It might seem that way, but that's not what's going on. When you deploy to
the real time platform, those sockets that pass live data to the GUI on the
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priority that they never or rarely happen. You need to religiously keep
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Tab Control Property Node gives a build error when used in a VI for LabVIEW PDA

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Hello Ton,
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http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=221507&requireLogin=False
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Hi again!
Well it solved my problem, but I got a strange error while running my program.
When I press "start", the tab control changes page. When I press "tilbake(back)" it is totally random how many clicks it is necessary for it to change back to the first page. It can be from 1 to 20-30 clicks. Which is very strange since all other navigation buttons works perfect. "Tilbake(back)" button on the last page works correctly and has the same structure as the "tilbake(back)" button on the middle page.
I have tried all the different options on how the button will response on a press.
Regrads,
Even
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