Using tabs to execute commands

Question

Tabs seemed to be used for navigation from page to page. But instead of moving to a page can it execute some command similar to a button. For example, I would like to have my pages have a common "toolbar" on each page which has a Clear, Save and Cancel buttons. But have these buttons be the tab items??

Answer 1

Hello @Kenneth Roy !

The tabs are used for navigation, like you just noted.

What you are looking for is called "toolbar" in MAUI, and you can check how to implement it here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/user-interface/toolbaritem

If you need something more flexible, you can mimic a toolbar using radio buttons, like here:
https://dev.to/davidortinau/making-a-tabbar-or-segmentedcontrol-in-net-maui-54ha

You can also add personalized buttons to your tabs, like here:
https://vladislavantonyuk.github.io/articles/Adding-custom-action-button-to-.NET-MAUI-Shell-TabBar/

Finally, you can encapsulate this controls in a template, that can be used on other pages of your app.

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