Tab control Problem

[dannywooly]

Hi

Im using visual basic.net, and i have a tabcontrol. But when i make certain tabpages property to inivisble they are still there. This property is on;y available in code!

Is there any reason for this or is there something im doing wrong?

Cheers All

Danny

[SaraL]

I've had problems with the visible property for tab pages too. Setting visible to false makes all the controls on the tab page invisible, but not the tab page itself. One alternative can be to remove the tabe page instead, and then add it when you want it back.

' Remove tab page
Me.tabControl.Controls.Remove(Me.TabPage1)
 
' Add tab page
Me.tabControl.Controls.Add(Me.TabPage1)

I also have another question about tab controls. How can I set the back color of the tab control? Doing this for the tab pages is no problem, but the tab control itself remains grey.

/Sara

[dannywooly]

Hi Sara

We found the same solution and have been using it for a while now, but it seems that a new form we are developing has nearly 17 tabs and they need to be in order, so were kinda hoping to find a solution to the problem.

From what i have done with tabs we haven't needed to change the colour, but i know what you mean it looks awful as a gray background. One form we gave up on that and used the toggle or flat buttons looks much better.

Cheers, nice to know im not alone on this one

Danny

[EagleEye]

May I suggest using Magic Library.

It has a much better tabpage control (even allows color tabs). I use it whenever I need any tab control now.

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[PT Exorcist]

that is all a lot lot lot cool until u try to do that things with the windows and this and then and u realise there are hundreds of classes and u dont know how that works..it is a lot complex..could've been a lot more simple...

[Zealot]

Hey Sara and Danny how about putting your tab controls inside a panel, and then turn the panel invisible? Isn't that a lot simpler?

[dannywooly]

Zealot

That would still leave the actual tab at the top of the control, making all the controls invisible of the whole tabcontrol invisible will not be the same. Each tabpage has a visible property but setting it doesn't have any effect!

Regards

Danny

[per-i]

But it costs 399,- that is a bit much if i just need another Tab control...

I have been searching for ages now for a tabcontrol that supports re-ordering of the tabs through the mouse though...

Petty it is that expensive (i only need the tab control and not the entire kit)

[dannywooly]

Hi All

I finally bit the bullet on it and wrote my own control. It uses an Array to hold the tab order so not to lose it! and uses the .Tag property to determine whether to add or remove them. Solved the problem and was free.

cheers Danny