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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference

Tab Group

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Description

A tab group is a control or group of controls to which the user can navigate by pressing Tab or Ctrl Tab.

Figure 67. Tab Group Navigation.




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Guidelines

Required
Configure a group of related push buttons, radio buttons, or check boxes together as a tab group.

Recommended
If a control uses internal navigation, define it to be a tab group.

Required
All controls within a window that can take focus, other than the menu bar, should be in one of the tab groups of the window.

Required
If a control within a scrolled area is in a tab group, either put the entire tab group within the scrolled area or put the entire scrolled area within the tab group.

Recommended
If a scrolled area contains multiple tab groups, then allow tab group navigation to navigate sequentially to all the tab groups in the scrolled area without any intermediate navigation to a tab group outside the scrolled area.

Recommended
Order tab groups from the top left to the bottom right of a window. For information on bidirectional and vertical language support, see Chapter 11.

Required
When an explicit focus policy is in effect and the user presses Ctrl Tab in a window with focus, move the focus to the next tab group in the window.

Required
When an explicit focus policy is in effect and the user presses Tab in a window with focus (and does not use Tab internally), move the focus to the next tab group in the window.

Required
When an explicit focus policy is in effect and the user presses Ctrl Shift Tab in a window with focus, move the focus to the previous tab group in the window.

Required
When an explicit focus policy is in effect and the user presses Shift Tab in a window with focus (and does not use Tab or Shift Tab internally), move the focus to the previous tab group in the window.

Required
Allow tab group navigation to wrap between the first and last tab groups of the window.

Essential Related Topics

For more information, see the Control Navigation, Cursor, Default Action, Internal Navigation, Mnemonic, and Window Navigation reference pages.

Supplemental Related Topics

For more information, see the Control, Keyboard (Device), and Push Button (Predefined) reference pages.

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