Hi *, I have created a custom TabControl (inherited from the default one). The only thing that's still missing is to customize the behaviour when the horizontal extension of the tab-strips exceeds the TabControl's width. In this case, the original TabControl displays those two buttons on the top right with which one can move between visible and invisible strips. I wonder as to whether one could ... 1. find out whether the buttons are being displayed or not and when this happens 2. hide the buttons and replace them with my custom ones 1. if there is no property that I overlooked this could at least be done "manually" by i.e. comparing the overall width of all visible TabStrips to the width of the control, although I would think that there really should be some mechanism built into the control. Also, tracking the position of a tab when i.e. the first one is not the visible one will produce quite some work I guess. 2. is pretty annoying. It seems that those buttons are kind of "pushed" into the control without publishing them as one would expect. That is, they seem to be buried in the Win32 API that the control must be based on. Thus, I seem to be unable to even retrieve their location and size. Also, drawing "over" them doesn't work as they will be drawn on top of whatever my code draws. Has anyone succeeded in replacing them with their own code ..? Cheers, Olaf
Would you like to try the XTabControl from SpringSys? > Hi *, > > I have created a custom TabControl (inherited from the default one). The > only thing that's still missing is to customize the behaviour when the > horizontal extension of the tab-strips exceeds the TabControl's width. In > this case, the original TabControl displays those two buttons on the top > right with which one can move between visible and invisible strips. > > I wonder as to whether one could ... > 1. find out whether the buttons are being displayed or not and when this > happens > 2. hide the buttons and replace them with my custom ones > > 1. if there is no property that I overlooked this could at least be done > "manually" by i.e. comparing the overall width of all visible TabStrips to > the width of the control, although I would think that there really should > be some mechanism built into the control. Also, tracking the position of a > tab when i.e. the first one is not the visible one will produce quite some > work I guess. > > 2. is pretty annoying. It seems that those buttons are kind of "pushed" > into the control without publishing them as one would expect. That is, > they > seem to be buried in the Win32 API that the control must be based on. > Thus, > I seem to be unable to even retrieve their location and size. Also, > drawing > "over" them doesn't work as they will be drawn on top of whatever my code > draws. > > Has anyone succeeded in replacing them with their own code ..? > > Cheers, > Olaf
Hi, Martin M wrote: > Would you like to try the XTabControl from SpringSys? actually I have opted to create a TabControl from scratch. The whole process thus took way longer than planned, but I sure learned a lot as well. Cheers, Olaf
