User`s guide

6 Lay Out a GUIDE GUI
Set Tab Order
A GUI’s tab order is the order in which com ponents of the GUI acquire focus
when a user presses the Tab key on the keyboard. Focus is generally denoted
by a border or a dotted border.
You can set, independently, the tab order o f components that have the same
parent. The GUI figure and each panel and button group in it has its own tab
order. For example, you can set the tab order of components that have the
figure as a parent. You can also set the tab order of components that have a
panel or button group as a parent.
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.
Note Axes cannot be tabbed. From GUIDE, you cannot include ActiveX
components in the tab order.
When you create a GUI, GUIDE sets the tab order at each level to be the
order in w hich you add components to that level in the Layout Editor. This
may not be the best order for the user.
Note Tab order also affects the stacking order of components. If components
overlap, those that appear lower in the tabbing order, are drawn on top of
those that appear higher in the order. See “Front-to-Back P ositioning” on
page 6-82 fo r more inform ation.
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