User`s guide

11 Lay Out a Programmatic GUI

where ph is the handle of the panel. This statement returns a vector

containing the handles of the children, the three push buttons.

ch =

4.0076

3.0076

2.0076

These handles correspond to the push buttons as shown in the following table:

Handle

Variable Push Button

4.0076 bh3

Surf

3.0076 bh2

Mesh

2.0076 bh1

Contour

The default tab order of the push buttons is the reverse of the order of the

child vector: Contour > Mesh > Surf.

Note The get function returns only those children whose handles are visible,

i.e., those with their

HandleVisibility property set to on.Useall child to

retrieve children regardless of their handle visibility.

In the example GUI figure, the default order is pop-up menu followed by the

panel’s Contour, Mesh,andSurf push buttons (in that order), and then

back to the pop-up menu. You cannot tab to the axes component or the static

text component.

Trymodifyingthecodetocreatethepop-upmenufollowingthecreationofthe

Contour push button and before the Mesh push button. Now execute the

code to create the GUI and tab through the components. This code change

does not alter the default tab order. This is because the pop-up menu does

not have the same parent as the push buttons. The figure is the parent of the

panel and the pop-up menu.

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