Tab object with mouseover and selected text color in Max 7.x: How-To

    Arvid Tomayko
    May 17 2017 | 5:17 pm
    Hi,
    I've been dissapointed that Max 7 removed the ability to show mouseover and specify a separate text color for the active tab. But its turns out you can accomplish it with 3 separate tab objects in Max 7.x:
    • All tab objects have same "tabs" content
    • main tab object has background colors you want, but text color set to transparent
    • connect left outlet of main tab to a 2nd tab object that has "Use Color For Text" and "Ignore Click" checked, with all colors transparent except Selected and Unselected tab colors. This allows the custom selected text color
    • connect right outlet of main tab to a 3rd tab object that has "Ignore Click" checked, with all colors transparent except Tab Color (Selected) which is only slightly opaque (I used black at 5% opacity). This makes the rollover.
    • stack them all exactly in presentation view.
    Here's an example (try it in presentation mode):
    I was happy to figure this out - hope it is helpful to others!
    But I would be even happier if C74 could build that original functionality back into the tab object…