NewTab: tab control for VB6

[Eduardo-]

Hello Eduardo!
I've been using the "NewTab" control you developed lately, it's very powerful, thank you for your efforts.

Hello, thanks.

Now there are some questions I would like to ask you how to solve:
1. How to set the "NewTab" control property, in order to imagine the "SSTabEx" control, in the design mode, you can directly draw the required Lable, TextBox, ComboBox and other controls directly into different tabs, so as to facilitate the adjustment of the typography or set the properties of the controls in each tab, (instead of using "Move the controls to another tab" or "Move a control to this tab.") "Method);

I guess you must be using the control in source code, and I understand that you are asking how to change the current tab at design time (clicking the tab is disabled by default when running in source code as a protection for the subclassing).

To turn the protection off, comment the first line: "#Const NOSUBCLASSINIDE = 1" or change the 1 by a 0.

Or, change the current tab with the TabSel property from the property window.

2. Can I add the property "Public Property TabKey(ByVal Index As Integer) As String" or "Public Property TabName(ByVal Index As Integer) As String". Tabs that are used to distinguish between different (unique names). "Index" or "TabCaption" cannot completely distinguish unique tabs, and "order" cannot be changed synchronously with the "TabCaption" value after the order is changed. In addition, you can set the value corresponding to "TabKey" or "TabName" in the property page. (Application scenario: When the software title is displayed in multiple Chinese languages, you need to assign different language characters to the "TabCaption attribute" according to the unique value "TabKey" value)
3. If you can't add the "TabName" or "TabKey" attribute. Is it possible to add the "TabTag" and attributes to the "Property Page" so that the "Key" or "Name" value can be manually filled in to the "TabTag" at design time.

The TabTag property already exists. Its type is String.
There is also another multipurpose property, it is TabData. Its type is Long.

You can use any of these properties for storing custom data.

Also there is a FindTab method that can be used to locate a tab by its TabTag or TabData values.

4. In "TDI" mode, after the form is loaded, if you reset the value of "Caption" of the form, the form will be "detached" from the tab and will become a non-"TDI" form. (Application scenario: When the software title is displayed in multiple Chinese languages, the form title will be reset)
Please help, thank you very much!

Fixed in the last update. Thanks for reporting.
(Please test)

I also added a TDIGetTabByFormHwnd method that is a companion for the TDIGetFormHwndByTab recently added.

[smileyoufu]

Hello Eduardo!
1. I did use the controls in the source code. Following the method you instructed, after switching to an OCX file, you can already add controls on the various tabs.
2. Reset the "Title" value of the form, and the form will be "detached" from the tab. After replacing the latest version of the file, the test results are used normally and the form is no longer "out of the box".
3. Can the functions of TabTag, TabData, and TabKey be realized as shown in the red box in the screenshot below?
Thank you very much!