Enterprise Curl

EmployeeTabPage

We first need to create a descendent of the COM.ENT-CURL.TAB.TabPage class that will be used to display employee details. This will be called EmployeeTabPage, and Figure 20-2 lists the code required.

As you can see, EmployeeTabPage inherits from TabPage and then uses the {initialize} method to direct the specific visual layout properties of the tab page. This method is called by the ancestor constructor event, and provides us with a hook for easily defining the controls that will appear and any additional processing or event requirements.

The {initialize} method makes use of the ancestor gui-factory reference to instantiate particular graphic controls, and stores the reference in class member fields. In earlier chapters, we saw ...