You use this procedure to create a tabstrip control in the alphanumeric mode of the Screen Painter. You must perform the following steps:
Defining the Tabstrip Area
The system displays the maximum possible size for the tabstrip control.
An attribute dialog box appears.
The tabstrip control appears on the screen.
By default new tabstrip controls have two tab titles. To add additional tab titles, you must use pushbuttons. A subscreen area must be assigned to each tab page.
Defining Tabstrip Control Elements
The tabstrip element dialog box appears.
You can also use the Tabstrip Control Wizard, which takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a tabstrip control. For more information, see Using the Tabstrip Control Wizard .
You have created a tabstrip control and assigned additional tab titles and subscreen areas to it. To get an impression of how the tabstrip looks at runtime, you can run a simulation of the screen. For more information, see Testing Screens .