How To Change the Tabs
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As of GeoMOOSE 2.6, the tabs system uses the Dojo conventions.

To add a custom tab follow and extend the example in `extensions/CustomTab.js`::

	/* 
	 * GeoMOOSE Custom Tab Example.
	 *
	 * This creates a customized tab for the user interface
	 * and then adds it to the control panel.
	 *
	 * TODO: This works, but we should really refactor it to use the 
	 * standard extension framework.
	 * 
	 */

	dojo.declare('MyTab', [GeoMOOSE.Tab], {
		title: 'My Custom Tab',

		startup: function() {
			this.inherited(arguments);
			this.set('content', "This is an example of a <b>custom tab.</b>");
		}
	});

	dojo.addOnLoad(function() {
		GeoMOOSE.addTab('my_custom_tab', new MyTab());
	});

But, I have a lot of text.
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Sometimes it is not convenient to use JavaScript to populate a lot of text into a tab.  We have an easy way to do this::

	dojo.declare('MyTab', [GeoMOOSE.Tab], {
		title: 'My Custom Tab',

		startup: function() {
			this.inherited(arguments);
			this.set('href', 'custom_data.html');
		}
	});

	dojo.addOnLoad(function() {
		GeoMOOSE.addTab('my_custom_tab', new MyTab());
	});

Instead of setting the HTML directly, it can be loaded from an external URL.  The first method (DHTML) should be used when adding additional Dojo/Dijit objects to the tab, using the HTML will not work as the Dojo-tagged-elements will not be properly parsed.