Renaming Tab

[aceweepop]

Can anyone tell me if its possible to rename a tab and still keep everything as it was on the old tab.
I just tried and lost hours off work.
Luckily I have Winmerge and recovered from the tbc.bak file.

I am loath to try again without help and cannot find this in available instructions.

Cheers aceweepop

[aceweepop]

Just an update with more detail.
When I said lost hours of work it was because buttons did not transfer to new tab.

I have since tried it on the included Magnum F4AF profile and got the same problem
ie I changed Tab VIEW to VIEW 1 in the tab editor and when I restarted profile VIEW 1 was there with no buttons.

How can I make buttons follow tab name change????

[Ugo_Ripley]

You could search the forum...

renaming tabs?
Renaming TABS

[aceweepop]

Thanks UGO,
followed those links and it looks like its a bug that WBK thinks as been squashed but it still exists.

Just a thought though, WBK , could the problem be that the button names all have to include the tab title first to make it work?????

[aceweepop]

OK found temporary solution untill WBK comes up with something better.

Use TB toolkit to provide new tab in tab editor...........................save

Open profile.tbc in notepad and alter tabname from old to new
for all button entries on old tab(use find and replace)..................save

Use TB toolkit to delete old tab............................................... .save

Open TouchBuddy load profile and BINGO......

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

I just remembered. I made a feature that allows you to import buttons from another profile into the current tab on the loaded profile in the toolkit.

I can't remember if it is in the released version of just mine.

First, Open your profile in the Toolkit and select your tab.
Next, go to the Profile Manager Tab.
Click on the 'Info' button in the toolbar. It's the first one on the left.
Now select the other profile that has the buttons you want to import onto the current tab.
At the top of the screen it should display a list of tabs in that selected profile.
Select the tab you want to import.
Click the Import Tab button.

This should import the buttons and place them in the same locations as in the other profile. So you will need to move them to their new locations if you want. Also, if it has problems or crashes the program, save it after the import and close and reopen the toolkit and load it again. I think it works pretty good, but can't remember since it's been a long time since I used this.

Also, backup your profiles before doing this just in case something goes wrong...

[aceweepop]

That does not seem to address my problem but does sound useful if it would work. I get a run time error when I try to save after the import.
I can live with my temperory solution ,but I have come to a stop because of the screen size restriction in the tool kit and lack of scroll bars to see the hidden bits.hope this can be resolved because I was beginning to really like this program. I think I better make a donation.

[Ugo_Ripley]

FYI, TB Toolkit is a graphical and very convenient editor for the *.tbc profile files, but if you open a profile with Notepad, or other programs, you'll see that they are just plain text files.
After some reading, you'll understand their structure.

So, the good news is that if you really need it, you can keep on developing your profile...using Notepad !!

[aceweepop]

Yessss if I live a long time,its too slow and laborious that way

[Waxer]

Originally Posted by aceweepop

I have come to a stop because of the screen size restriction in the tool kit and lack of scroll bars to see the hidden bits.hope this can be resolved because I was beginning to really like this program. I think I better make a donation.

Aceweepop: don't know if you caught this but you can work around the screen size restriction. Connect your touchscreen to the system you are developing your profile on and expand your desktop across it. Then, you can drag the TB Toolkit window around, and/or make it larger, so as to see the missing parts. I was able to drag the right side of the window "to the right" and then "push" the whole window to the left, so that I could see the parts of the background graphic "rightwards" out to 1280 pixels; and I was able to drag the bottom of the window "downwards" onto the "adjacent" touchscreen monitor, so as to see the "southern" portion of the background graphic. This allowed me to place all my buttons. (Hard to explain, isn't it?).