NAME
Notebook (Control) — Reference
Description
A notebook is a multipage control for a linearly ordered set
of pages that supports the use of notebook tabs as paging controls.
It consists of the following elements:
- Notebook tab
A kind of action choice used as a paging control
within a notebook to make the page corresponding to the notebook
tab visible.
- Major tabs
A linear sequence of notebook tabs that identifies
the important pages in a notebook or organizes the notebook into
sections.
- Minor tabs
A linear sequence of tabs that identifies important
pages within the sections determined by the major tabs.
- Bookmark tabs
A set of tabs that corresponds to pages, dynamically
identified as a result of user action.
- Section
An associated contiguous group of pages in a notebook.
Figure 44 “Notebook” is
an example of a simple notebook.
When to Use
- Recommended
Use a notebook when more than a small number of
pages are to be used in a multipage control.
- Recommended
Use a notebook when the pages in a multipage control
are best organized in sections.
Guidelines
Notebook Layout
- Required
Provide a spin box paging control for paging through
the notebook.
- Required
If there is insufficient space to display a group
of notebook tabs, the layout is clipped and arrow buttons (action
choices that cannot take focus) are displayed on the ends of the
group to scroll the visible set of tabs.
- Recommended
When the pages in a notebook can be organized into
sections, provide a set of major tabs to directly access the first
page of a section.
- Recommended
When some pages within a section associated with
a major tab have greater importance than other pages in the section,
provide a set of minor tabs to directly access the important pages.
- Recommended
Lay out the major tabs vertically along the right
side of the notebook page and lay out the minor tabs horizontally
below the notebook page in order of the corresponding pages. For
information on bidirectional and vertical language support, see
Chapter 11.
- Optional
Provide one or more sets of bookmark tabs, additional
paging controls, and other controls for displaying status in a notebook.
Behavior of Notebook Tabs
- Required
The action associated with a notebook tab displays
its corresponding page.
- Required
Allow directional keys to navigate to all the notebook
tabs in a group, including those that are not currently visible
(navigating to one makes it visible).
- Required
When the user uses the keyboard to activate a notebook
tab, leave focus in the notebook tab.
- Optional
When the user uses the mouse to activate a notebook
tab, move focus to the page displayed.
Tab Groups
- Required
Organize the major tabs in a notebook into a single
tab group.
- Required
Organize the minor tabs corresponding to pages within
a section associated with a major tab into a single tab group.
- Required
Organize any paging controls (other than notebook
tabs) into one or more sets of tab groups.
- Required
Organize any bookmark tabs into one or more sets
of tab groups.
Tab Navigation Within Single-Page Notebooks
- Required
Make the minor tabs for a section of a single-page
notebook visible only when the currently visible page is within
that section.
- Required
When tab group navigation is used to traverse to
a group of major or minor tabs in a single-page notebook, place
focus on one of the following:
The notebook tab for the currently
visible page
The nearest notebook tab preceding the currently
visible page
The first notebook tab in the group
- Required
Traverse the tab groups within a single-page notebook
in the following order:
Tab group(s) of the visible page
Any nontab paging controls
Bookmark tabs
Major tabs
Minor tabs
Traversable status controls
Essential Related Topics
For more information, see the Multipage Control (Control Type)
reference page.
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