Tab Controls
The following lists the mandatory properties for tab controls:
Tabcontrol control-id"title"x y width height
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Property |
Description |
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tabcontrol |
Identifies the control as a tab control. |
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control-id |
Control ID number. It must be an integer between 1 and 32767 and be unique within a given top-level window. |
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"title" |
Title of the control, contained in quotation marks. |
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x |
Horizontal position of the upper-left corner of the control in current units. |
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y |
Vertical position of the upper-left corner of the control in current units. |
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width |
Width of the control in current units. |
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height |
Height of the control in current units. |
The following identifies the optional properties for this control.
Display Tabs as Buttons (buttons)
Set Fixed Tab Widths (fixedwidths)
Receive Focus on Button Down (focusonbuttondown)
Force Icons to Left Margin (forceiconleft)
Force Labels to Left Edge of Tabs (forcelabelleft)
Group Controls Together (group)
Set Additional Horizontal Spacing Between Tabs (horizontalpadding)
Initially Invisible (invisible)
Display all Tab Row (multiline)
Prevent Automatic Management of Tab Item Display and Sizing (noautomanagement)
Prevent Full Tab Justification (raggedright)
Set Full Tab Justification (rightjustify)
Share Image Lists with Other Tab Controls (shareimagelists)
Display Tabs as Tabs/Draw Border Around Display (tabs)
Create as Tool Button Window (toolwindow)
Set Additional Vertical Tab Spacing (verticalpadding).
Automanagement
Backgroundcolor
Foregroundcolor
Group
Height
Initialcontents
Opaque
Padding
Popupmenuid
Singleline
Title
Width
Defining Tabs
The following lists the mandatory properties for tabs contained within tab controls:
Tab "title"imagelist-indexchildwindow|control-id
The following describes the tab properties:
|
Property |
Description |
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Tab |
Identifies the control as a tab. |
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"title" |
Title of the tab, contained in quotation marks. |
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imagelist-index |
Integer that represents the index value of an image list. |
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childwindow-id|control-id |
ID of the child window or control. |
Attributes and flags used in child window definitions can also be used in tab definitions.
Example
The following example contains a window with two tab controls; the first contains only the mandatory definitions, and the second contains optional settings. The second tab control contains three tabs:
Version "3.0"
Window 1 "Control Window" 0 0 400 300
Begin
Tabcontrol 1 "Tab Control 1" 10 225 100 50
Tabcontrol 2 "Tab Control 2" 50 10 300 200
Begin
Backgroundcolor Rgb(128,128,128)
Initialtab 0
Width 400
Height 200
Verticalpadding 15
Horizontalpadding 15
Imagelist "\\foo.bmp"
Automanagement
Buttons Fixedwidth Focusnever
Focusonbuttondown Forceiconleft Multiline
Raggedright Rightjustify
Singleline Clientedge Raisededge
Tab "Tab 1" 0 1000
Tab "Tab 2" 1 2000
Tab "Tab 3" 2 3000
End
End
Child-window 1000 100 100
Begin
Button 1 "OK" 10 10 50 25
End
Child-window 2000 100 100
Begin
Button 1 "Yes" 10 10 50 25
End
Child-window 3000 100 100
Begin
Button 1 "Finish" 10 10 50 25
End