[DUG] Tabcontrol

[kaller at ihug.co.nz]

Doh. I just replaced the tabcontrol and it works fine now.
Now I am loooking for a panel splitter like Spybot S&D uses.
Might be a good project to hone those component building
skills after all...:)



> 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 :) Thanks
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