Tabs Package

The XP Tabs (TabControAdv) feature provided as part of this package is an advanced tab control with plenty of appearance styles and configuration capabilities. It makes the creation of custom tabs with custom shapes and styles a snap.

XP Tabs is a 100% Native .NET tab control implementation that comes with a lot more configuration and customization capabilities than the legacy wrapper that the .NET framework comes with. It provides all the basic functionality of a standard tab control and much more.

The XP Tab Control is an advanced tab control with options that allow the creation of very sophisticated tabbed interfaces. Various styles are available to customize the appearance of the tabs created using the TabControlAdv. They have been illustrated below:

Office2007 Color Schemes (Black and Silver) are now extended in TabControlAdv control to provide improved look and feel for real world applications.

The Tabs can be aligned to the top, bottom, left or right as shown below:

The tabs can be arranged in a single line or multiple lines. Further, the TabControlAdv is also provided with the ShrinkToFit and FillToRight sizing modes.

The text and vertical line alignment of the text can be set to near, center or far as illustrated below:

Essential Tabs provides a set of options to customize the TabControlAdv with images.

TabcontrolAdv can have images set outside the TabBounds.

Various alignment options are available for the image position with respect to the text.

TabControlAdv has the ability to add scroll buttons on the tab panel, when the number of tab pages increase. These scroll buttons in the TabContolAdv allows the user to navigate through the tab pages in front and back.

Custom Colors can be applied for active, inactive, individual tabs and also for the TabPanel while using the TabcontrolAdv.

Further individual tab fonts can also be customized as desired.

The TabPanelBackColor can be set irrespective of the TabStyles used.

Custom tab controls can be drawn utilizing the owner draw functionality. Some of them are given below:

Tab navigation can be accomplished using Tab primitives, while using the TabControlAdv. These primitives include

• FirstTab
• LastTab
• PreviousTab
• NextTab
• PreviousPage
• NextPage
• DropDown
• Close
• Custom

Custom images and tooltips can also be associated with these primitives.

Close button can be provided for tabs available in the TabControlAdv. This feature comes with the following options

• Close button for all tab pages like IE7
• Close button for active tabs alone
• Close button for TabControlAdv to close the currently selected TabPage.
• Close button with custom images.

Tab header text can be displayed in multiple lines while using the TabControlAdv.

Complete state persistence is available for the TabControlAdv. This includes the following options:

• Persist Tab State – The tab state will be automatically maintained, if needed.
• Save State – The current tab state information can be saved to the respective serializer.
• Load State – A previously serialized tab state can be loaded.

Gaps can be set between the various tabs of the TabControlAdv.

The space around the Tab header content can be modified using its respective padding properties.

Tabs can be highlighted when the mouse is hovered over them, using the specialized hot tracking functionality.

Scrolling in TabcontrolAdv can be done in tabs or pages. Further the tabs can also be moved at runtime using the drag - drop functionality.