Convert an Existing MDI Application to Tabbed MDI The WinTabbedMdiManager™ component makes it very easy to convert an existing MDI application into a tabbed window interface application like Visual Studio.NET. The element automatically manages any MDI child windows of the MDI parent form it is placed on. To conver...
Create a Custom Context Menu When the user drags and drops a tab into the client area of a TabbedMDI window, a context menu appears prompting them to select either a horizontal or vertical tab group. A similar menu appears when the user right-clicks on a tab. These context menus are set up to automatically provide...
Create Nested Tab Groups With the release of Ultimate UI for Windows Forms 2005 Volume 2, the WinTabbedMdiManager™ component includes the ability to create nested tab groups. A nested tab group is an MdiTabGroup that contains other MdiTabGroups instead of MdiTabs. The ability to nest tab groups allows for more cus...
Creating a WinTabbedMdiManager Interface Creating a TabbedMDI interface is no more difficult than creating a standard MDI interface for your application. Simply by adding the TabbedMDI element, you can covert a standard MDI parent form into one that will manage its MDI children using the tab metaphor found in Visu...
Defining the Appearance of Tabs The WinTabbedMdiManager™ component exposes many properties to control the location, size and appearance of the tab items. The properties that can be set for all tabs in a tab group (e.g. TabStyle, TabHeight, etc.) can either be set using the specific MdiTabGroup’s Settings or for al...
Defining the Orientation and Appearance of MDI Tabs You can change the way MDI tabs are oriented in them MDI client area. You can also control the appearance of the tabs through Appearance objects to match the look of the tabs to the overall look of your application. Questions How can I place the tabs at the side ...
Reposition a Tab within Tab Groups Tabbed windows displayed in the TabbedMDI interface always belong to a tab group. When there is only one tab group in use, the presence of tab groups will not be obvious, but by dragging or right-clicking on any tab, users of the application can quickly create and interact with t...
Save and Restore a Tabbed MDI Layout The current layout of your Tabbed MDI application (including tab position and tab groups) can be saved to a storage stream for later recall. You can use this feature to provide the user with a way to save the state of the application between sessions, or to provide customized v...
WinTabbedMdiManager 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 a...
Tab Serialization The layout and settings of the tabs and tab groups may be persisted using the SaveAsBinary or SaveAsXml methods of the UltraTabbedMdiManager . This is usually done when the form is closing so the user interface may be reloaded when the application is run again. To load the layout, use the LoadFro...