Last week I wrote a new version of my custom function FrontTabs. The function retrieves the object names of all open tabs. Another developer discovered an error in the previous version. With three or more nested tab controls the function could return a wrong result. It was time to rewrite the function. The new version takes care of that problem.

The function FrontTabs returns a list with all currently open tabs, so called front tabs. Of course, all tabs must have an object name. The returned object names are listed in the order of the nested tab controls, starting with the utmost tab control. This makes it easy to recreate a previous saved front tabs status. Read more …