tab control--how do I use same control/indicator on multiple pages.

[El_Penguino]

Actually that plan worked out. The trick for me as a noob was placing my copying code inside the appropriate event structure.

I found there is an event for Tab Control - Value Change. I made 2 event dependent cases to match the 2 tabs with the controls I want to manage ( Read & Write Serial). I placed property value copy commands from Control 1 to Control 2 inside the event structure when the tab control value becomes a new value of "Read" and copy commands for Control 2 to Control 1 when the tab control value becomes a new value of "Write".

A picture can tell up to a thousand words - here's one:

Hope that helps,

Chris

[billko]

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@El_Penguino wrote:

Actually that plan worked out. The trick for me as a noob was placing my copying code inside the appropriate event structure.

I found there is an event for Tab Control - Value Change. I made 2 event dependent cases to match the 2 tabs with the controls I want to manage ( Read & Write Serial). I placed property value copy commands from Control 1 to Control 2 inside the event structure when the tab control value becomes a new value of "Read" and copy commands for Control 2 to Control 1 when the tab control value becomes a new value of "Write".

A picture can tell up to a thousand words - here's one:

Hope that helps,

Chris

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Very cool.  I'm glad you found your path forward.  🙂

[elset191]

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@El_Penguino wrote:

Actually that plan worked out. The trick for me as a noob was placing my copying code inside the appropriate event structure.

I found there is an event for Tab Control - Value Change. I made 2 event dependent cases to match the 2 tabs with the controls I want to manage ( Read & Write Serial). I placed property value copy commands from Control 1 to Control 2 inside the event structure when the tab control value becomes a new value of "Read" and copy commands for Control 2 to Control 1 when the tab control value becomes a new value of "Write".

A picture can tell up to a thousand words - here's one:

Hope that helps,

Chris

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Locals are more efficient than Value Properties, so if you're going to go that route, I'd use locals.

What I'd really do though is use nathand's approach.