[RESOLVED] Creating tab pages

I looked at the code of one of the example projects that came with VB6 as I wanted to find out how to use tabs (like for options windows). The code in one form with tabs involved the controls being contained within picture boxes and when the tabs were clicked on there were simple moved offscreen (left -2000) to reveal the ones below. Surely there must be a better way to do it. The tabs I have created also do not follow the Windows XP theme when the rest of the program does. I have disabled the tabs that do not follow the XP theme at all via Project and Components. Let me knoe if there is another way of creating tab pages and how to get them to follow the Windows XP theme.

Thanks in advance!

Have you looked at the Tabbed Dialog control?

No. How do I do that?

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Originally Posted by dom_stapleton

No. How do I do that?

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Projects/Components

Locate Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control
Check the box and Click OK
A tabbed dialog control will be added to your toolbox

Place one on a form and you are good to go.

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The code in one form with tabs involved the controls being contained within picture boxes and when the tabs were clicked on there were simple moved offscreen (left -2000) to reveal the ones below. Surely there must be a better way to do it.

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Moving controls offscreen is how the Tabbed Dialog Control (SSTab) operates as well.

I found out how to use the SSTab control. Is it just me or are they the same tabs they used in Windows 3.1?

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Originally Posted by dom_stapleton

I found out how to use the SSTab control. Is it just me or are they the same tabs they used in Windows 3.1?

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Back in the 3.1 days, the sstab control was orignially made and marketing by Sheridan and was a third party control that had to be purchased. Since that time, Microsoft purchased the control and started shipping it with VB, so it has been around for quite sometime.