Tab Control

[Paul Dudley]

Every time I try and place a tab control on a form from the toolbox it remains transparent in design mode and form view. If I put Controls on the second page they can be seen through the first page. Whats going on??

Paul
Need your help

[Buzby]

Firstly, don't use the Tabbed Dialog control including the Microsoft Windows Common Controls library because it's crap - used the one labelled up as Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control separately on the components list.

Secondaly, you can't drag controls onto a page of the tabbed control - you need to CUT the control, click on the tabbed control and then PASTE the control onto it.

[Clunietp]

yes, the Tabbed Dialog Control (the separate OCX) is much easier to work with than the one included with the common controls

If you must use the one with the common controls, put all of your controls for each tab in a frame. On the click event of the tab, show and hide the appropriate frames. This is a bit of smoke and mirrors, but it is how it works


Tom