Hmm, try:

1. controlP5.controller(""+i).setPosition(60,100*i);

hmm dont think so. i was looking for a way to do that as well.
couldnt find one.
you cant even move it while pressing ALT the way you can move other elements.

true, would be good to add the option to move it around as well. I needed to move it a bit lower to add other elements above it.

Oh right. Did some tests and found out that controlP5.tab("").setPosition changes the position of the controllers that are assigned to the tab. See the code example below.

1. import controlP5.*;
2. ControlP5 controlP5;
3. 
   
4. void setup() {
5.   size(400,400);
6.   controlP5 = new ControlP5(this);
7.   controlP5.addButton("buttonFromTabOne",0,150,150,100,50);
8.   controlP5.addButton("buttonFromTabTwo",0,0,150,100,50);
9.   controlP5.tab("default").setLabel("tabOne");
10.   controlP5.controller("buttonFromTabTwo").moveTo("tabTwo");
11.   controlP5.tab("default").setWidth(192);
12.   controlP5.tab("tabTwo").setWidth(192);
13. }
14. 
    
15. void draw() {
16.   controlP5.tab("tabTwo").setPosition(mouseX-50,0);
17.   background(200);
18. }

Also, I checked the source code for the controlP5 Tab and it says:

1. /*
2. * @todo
3. * enable positioning of tabs.
4. */

So it seems Andreas has this on his list

thanks for your help.

i really hope andreas will fix that soon.
i tried to look for other ways to solve the problem. like building my own tabs using buttons, and show and hide controllers. but this is so complicated.

Well spotted amnon! could have though of that myself.

would definitely be cool if he would add it, but as it is on his todo list he probably will.
I am not going to ask him to do it though. He already helped me a lot in the past with adding new features to controlP5. :)
He is really helpful!

hi, i have been tweaking controlP5 quite a bit since the last release - the positioning of the tabs is one of those changes. i have uploaded a pre version here and you can use for example

Fantastic andreas!
such a great update.
I checked through some of the new examples. pretty useful.
i will try to make use of the auto and quick feature. not sure yet what all the differences exactly are. but i will find out.

as i work a lot with your library the last days and weeks. i came across different things that are maybe bugs and on the other hand though of different stuff that might be useful. maybe its already added but i just dont know about it.

i tried to use the timer in one of my sketches, but after i added 2 timers, the frameRate dropped from over 60 to 10.
i tried to figure out where exactly the problem comes from.
its not the timer, its actually the  t.setValue(""); command that slows it down. But only if you use your sketch in OPENGL mode, like i do at the moment.
drawing the timer using :   text(c.toString(),100,100);  works fine though.

Which brought me to one of my questions. does your library offers the option to set the controlP5 fonts as standard PFont to use them with text() ?  Something like textFont(controlP5.getFont(1));  would make it easier to write text with the same font without the need to use the textlabels. I know it works the other way. Probably not as they are bitmap fonts. but do they exist as ttf somewhere ?

Another bug i found seems to be with the Tab style.
if you try to change the color of the detault Tab using
  controlP5.tab("default").setHeight(20);
  controlP5.tab("default").setWidth(80);
it changes the color of all the other controlers as well, except the "not default" tabs...


and another last question that i asked myself.
is there an easy way to kinda shuffle, or randomize a controller.
For example. I have a lot of sliders defining the appearance of an object.  How would randomize all those sliders ?
As far as i know, i need to to get the min max value, randomize the variable, and update the slider with the new value.
is there something like s1.shuffle(); for example? would be nice...

Anyway these are just thoughts and suggestions.
I really appreciate all your work!

ha, great. if there is any pre_release for testing the shuffle function. let me know. I already have a good use for it.

thx for pointing me to the fonts.
i actually tried to find the fonts you use in controlp5 as ttf,
i found http://www.dafont.com/grixel-kyrou-9.font
but as you said, there are several out that look similar.

about the tabs. i thought about that as well.
but i was wondering because it also changed the color of controllers, in my case the dropdowns that are not part of the tab.
or maybe i misunderstood the way of not including controllers to tabs.
they are added to the default tab by default, but are excluded if i use x.moveTo("global"); right ?