Specifications

Setting the Tab Order — The Tab Order Editor
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Setting the Tab Order — The Tab Order Editor
A GUI’s tab order is the order in which components of the GUI are selected
when a user presses the
Tab key on the keyboard. When you create a GUI,
GUIDE sets the tab order at each level to be the order in which you add
components to that level in the Layout Editor. This is often not the best order
for the user.
The tab order for each level is determined independently. The figure is the base
level, and each panel or button group establishes its own level. If, in tabbing
through the components at the figure level, a user tabs to a panel or button
group, then subsequent tabs sequence through the components of the panel or
button group before returning to the level from which the panel or button group
was reached.
The figure in the following GUI contains an axes, a slider, a panel, a static text,
and a pop-up menu. Of these, only the slider, the panel, and the pop-up menu
at the figure level can be tabbed. The panel contains three push buttons, which
can all be tabbed.