TabHost ThemesEnabled

[Sebastien Lange]

Hi,

I have a MDI application that manage my forms with a TabbedMDIManager.
I'd like to Enable/Disable XP Themes for the application and also the tabs, like the TabControlHost does.
Is it using MDITabPanel? Do you have a sample?

Sebastien

[Sebastien Lange]

I tried the following, but I still have the same look&feel. (I have XP of course).

public class MyTabbedMDIManager : TabbedMDIManager
{
// The base class creates a new instance of the MDITabPanel class.
protected override MDITabPanel CreateMDITabPanel()
{
MDITabPanel tab = new MDITabPanel(this);
tab.ThemesEnabled = true;
return tab;
}
// Method gets called to initialize a tab control after it gets created.

protected override void InitMDITabPanel(MDITabPanel tabPanel)
{
base.InitMDITabPanel(tabPanel);
// Go ahead and set some properties on the tab control.
tabPanel.ThemesEnabled = true;
}
}

[Administrator]

Sebastien,

Also change the tab's TabStyle property as follows:

this.tabControlExt1.TabStyle = typeof(Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.TabRenderer3D);

Only the 3D style supports themes.

Regards,
Praveen Ramesh

[Nik Vale]

Praveen,

It seems the only way to achieved themed MDI tabs is to either derive a class from TabbedMDIManager, or change the original class...

Why doesn't the TabbedMDIManager have a ThemesEnabled property?

Is this going to supported in the next release?

Nik.

[Administrator]

Nik,

I will make this a feature request for our next minor release. It should be pretty easy to include this feature.

-Praveen