Placing Controls on WinTab Background You can place controls directly into the container area of the WinTab™ or WinTabStrip™ control at design-time, positioning and sizing them as you would on a Windows Form. The tab area of the control is active at design-time, making it easy to switch among tabs and add controls...
Position Tabs at desired locations Tabs in WinTab can be ordered or repositioned at run-time by either manually dragging and re-positioning, provided the AllowTabMoving property is set to true. It is also possible through code, using the Tab object’s Reposition method VisibleIndex property. This topic assumes you ...
WinTab Resource Strings Reference You can quickly and easily modify any resource string value that is displayed to a user by a control/component. Resource strings include items such as dialog box captions, warning messages, alerts, etc. The following table lists the names of the resource strings that are used by t...
Sharing Controls Among WinTabs Note Note This section does not apply to WinTabStrip™ since all of its child controls are shared between tabs. In contrast, WinTab™ creates a tab page control for each tab to support having different controls on each tab. However, there are situations where it is desirable to have on...
WinTab Smart Tag In Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0), each Ultimate UI for Windows Forms control/component is equipped with a Smart Tag. By simply selecting the control/component, a Smart Tag anchor appears. When you click this anchor, a pop-up panel appears, providing you with quick and easy access to the ...
Sort Tabs The tabs in the control appear in the order that they occupy in the Tabs collection. Once the control has been populated with tabs, you can choose to sort the tabs alphabetically based on the text they are displaying. This capability is available in both the WinTab™ and WinTabStrip™ controls, although it...
Specify Orientation for Tabs in WinTab This topic shows you how to set the WinTab™ control’s Tab Orientation as well as the Tab object’s Text Orientation. These settings can be applied through the WinTab control’s smart tag. It is also possible through code using the TabOrientation and TextOrientation properties. ...
Styling WinTab Scroll Buttons This topic shows you how to style the WinTab™ control’s scroll buttons. Whenever the amount of Tab objects exceed the visible portion of the WinTab control, scroll buttons will be shown by default so that end users can scroll through your Tab objects. In Visual Basic: In C#:
Tab Layout This topic shows how you can display Tabs in a single row or in multiple rows using the WinTab™ control’s TabLayoutStyle property. Also if you display Tabs in multiple rows, you can specify the number of Tabs to be displayed in each row by using the WinTab control’s TabsPerRow property. This topic assum...
Understanding WinTab and WinTabStrip This is a great place for you to start learning about the WinTab™ and WinTabStrip™ controls, and their key features and functionalities. The topics in this section will give you a better idea of why you would want to use WinTab and WinTabStrip in your applications. Click the li...