Question on UI element: TabbedPanel

[jsavage77]

I'm trying to set up a simple dialog just to understand how tabbed panels work, here's my code:

]var ADAPTwinResource =

"dialog { \

     properties:{ \

          resizeable:false, \

          closeButton:false \

          },  \

     preferredSize: [100, undefined], \

     text: 'Test Dialog', \

     frameLocation: [100,100], \

     pnl1: TabbedPanel { \

          tab1: Tab { \

               properties:{ \

                    text:'Tab 1' \

               } \

          }, \

          tab2: Tab { \

               properties:{ \

                    text:'Tab 2' \

               } \

          } \

     } \

}";

var ADAPTwin = new Window(ADAPTwinResource);

ADAPTwin.show();

This gives me an error of:

"Bad Argument: Invalid Resource Format"

I'm at a loss to find the error.  Can anyone help me figure out where I'm going wrong?  I'm a simple SIMPLE dialog at this point.

[Muppet_Mark-QAl63s]

Any reason why you want to do this in 'resource string style'…?

[jsavage77]

That's my preffered method of generating dialogs.  I've been able to create TabbedPanels otherwise, but I'd like to know why it isn't working in resource specification.

[Reimund T]

I'm getting the same problem, ie it works using add but not in a resource string.

Can someone from Adobe confirm that this is indeed a bug?

[KennethWebb]

I ran across this trying to figure out the same problem.

I finally found a thread which answered it.

Your code, corrected:

var ADAPTwinResource =

"dialog { \

     properties:{ \

          resizeable:false, \

          closeButton:false \

          },  \

     preferredSize: [100, undefined], \

     text: 'Test Dialog', \

     frameLocation: [100,100], \

     pnl1: Panel {type:'tabbedpanel', \

          tab1: Panel { type:'tab',\

                    text:'Tab 1' \

          }, \

          tab2: Panel {type:'tab',\

               text:'Tab 2' \

          } \

     } \

}";

var ADAPTwin = new Window(ADAPTwinResource);

ADAPTwin.show();

Link to thread that cleared up this issue for me.

[piXelsplasher]

Thank you, Kenneth. That certainly worked for me but it seems to be a work-around for now.

This documentation on ScriptUI control objects clearly states that tabbedpanel is a container with its own set of properties and yet is not recognized as a valid resource format.

https://estk.aenhancers.com/4%20-%20User-Interface%20Tools/control-objects.html

Even LatteUI.jsx could not support it as a declared noun. Surely, this must be a bug.