[DUG] Tabcontrol

[kaller at ihug.co.nz]

Its a tabcontrol, not a pagecontrol, but it might be
misbehaving anyway.  Oops I didnt know about themes.   A bit
of googling told me I can compile the manifest into Delphi
as a resource. I will try that thanks.


> I tried DevExpress page control and didn't find it very
> useful. We needed extra properties like fonts per page,
> and proper enable/disable.
>
> We ended up developing our own. Was pretty easy. The Page
> Control and the Pages were inherited from TCustom Panel.
>
> TPageControl also works well if you don't want to
> arbirtarily hide or disable tabs.
> You get the mouse over stuff if you have XP themes enabled
> for the application (we use a Manifest file at least).
> I'm not sure what you mean by "expand to the text size".
> TPageControl tabs will resize depending on the tab
> caption.
>
> Stacey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
> [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On Behalf Of Kyley
> Harris Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:38
> To: kaller at ihug.co.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group -
> Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] Tabcontrol
>
> DevExpress has good tab controls, if you don't mind
> spending money. TMS also.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
> [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On Behalf Of
> kaller at ihug.co.nz Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2006 4:28 p.m.
> To: Delphi at ns3.123.co.nz
> Subject: [DUG] Tabcontrol
>
> Modest request, where can I find a tabcontrol component
> like the one Textpad uses, tabs expand to the text size,
> and has a little hot tracking highlight on mouseover.  Or
> should I be trying to write something like that myself?  I
> am not that flash at component writing really, but I am
> picking it up ie but I can follow code once I am shown :)
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