BBC BASIC for Windows
Programming >> User Interface >> Tab and icons http://bb4w.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=ui&action=display&num=1381324041 Tab and icons
Post by Kendall K Down on Mar 4th, 2010, 10:36am
I wrote a program in which I created icons in the main window area, only to discover to my consternation that I could not use Tab to step between them. Apparently this is a "feature" of icons in the main window area, not a bug in my program. I just wish it had been mentioned in the relevant Help file. Would have saved me hours of checking and head-scratching.
Re: Tab and icons
Post by admin on Mar 4th, 2010, 3:48pm
I just wish it had been mentioned in the relevant Help file. Would have saved me hours of checking and head-scratching.
Keyboard navigation between dialogue box controls is a feature of Windows; it's not (specifically) anything to do with BBC BASIC. It's unreasonable to expect the BB4W documentation to cross-reference every aspect of the Windows documentation which could possibly be relevant to a BBC BASIC program - which is just about everything in MSDN!
Ultimately, when accessing a feature of Windows from BBC BASIC or any other programming language, you must accept that there will be aspects of that feature that can only be discovered by reading Microsoft's documentation.
You should expect the BB4W documentation to cover everything about interfacing with the Windows API that is specific to BBC BASIC, but to the extent that BB4W simply provides a 'gateway' to Windows you should no more expect the BB4W documentation to cover it than the documentation for any other programming language.