March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
32h 35m
English
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Name
TabControl
Synopsis
A TabControl is a multipage container that can be
used to display several related forms in a compact manner.
The TabControl maintains a collection of
TabPages and renders a set of buttons that can be
used to switch between those tabs. The number of tabs in the control
can be obtained through the TabCount property. You
can also retrieve the SelectedTab (or the
SelectedIndex in the TabPages
collection).
If there are more tabs than there is room for, you can enable
Multiline display to show them in multiple rows,
rather than allow the default scrolling behavior. The number of these
rows is available in the RowCount property. The
position of the tabs relative to the container can be set with the
Alignment property.
The Appearance of the tabs can be modified. The
SizeMode allows you to determine whether the tabs
are of a Fixed width size to their content
(Normal) or run the entire width of the control
(FillToRight—you must enable
Multiline to use this mode). You can also enable
HotTrack, which changes the appearance of the tab
on mouse over. For maximum control, you can set the
DrawMode to
TabDrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed and bind to the
DrawItem event to paint the tabs yourself. See
DrawItemEventArgs for more information about owner
draw in general.
If you want to support Windows XP themes, you need to ensure that the
controls Appearance is set to
Normal, and that you have a manifest reference for the Common Controls v6. This will cause the tabs themselves to appear correctly, ...
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