guiSetSelectedTab

Client-side

Server-side

Shared

This function is used to change the currently selected tab in a tab-panel.

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Method:gui-tabpanel:setSelectedTab(...)
Variable: .selectedTab

Syntax

bool guiSetSelectedTab ( gui-tabpanel tabPanel, gui-tab theTab )

Required arguments

tabPanel: The tab panel which current tab you want to change.
theTab: The tab which will be the new active tab.

Returns

Returns true if the selected tab was changed to a new one successfully, false otherwise.

bool: result

Code Examples

client

This example changes the selected tab to the next available tab.

local tabPanel = guiCreateTabPanel(0, 0.1, 1, 1, true) -- create a tab panel which fills the whole window
local tab1 = guiCreateTab("Welcome", tabPanel) -- create a tab for the tab panel above
local tab2 = guiCreateTab("Info", tabPanel) -- create another tab for the tab panel at the top

function check()
    if (guiGetSelectedTab(tabPanel) == tab1) then -- Check what tab is currently shown
        guiSetSelectedTab(tabPanel, tab2) -- if the "Welcome" tab is selected, change it to tab2("Info" tab)
    else
        guiSetSelectedTab(tabPanel, tab1) -- if the "Info" tab is selected, change it to tab1("Welcome" tab)
    end
end
setTimer(check, 5000, 0)

guiSetSelectedTab

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Syntax

Required arguments

Returns

Code Examples

See Also

GUI Functions

GUI Elements

Reference