Font size in the tab of TabbedMDIManager

[Philipp Schuette]

i used the TabbedMDIManager and its a graet tool. In the Way i used it, i will display a lot of information in the tab header (often there is onle one tab). After 64 character the fonsize get smaller, it is possible to disable this feature?

Philipp

[Administrator]

Hi Philipp,

You can control the Font of the TabbedMdiManager through the following properties:

this.tabbedMDIManager1.TabGroupHosts[n].MDITabPanel.ActiveTabFont;

this.tabbedMDIManager1.TabGroupHosts[n].MDITabPanel.Font;

For example, if you want to set the Font of all the active tabs to Arial at size 16, you would use the following code snippet:

foreach (TabHost host in this.tabbedMDIManager.TabGroupHosts)
{
host.MDITabPanel.ActiveTabFont = new Font("Arial", 16);
}

Regards,
Gregory Austin
Syncfusion Inc.

[Philipp Schuette]

Hi Gregory,

thanks a lot for your reply. Your solution works with arial or tahoma, but not with microsoft sans serif. tahoma is fine for me.

Philipp

[Ken]

Hi,

I got an problem with that when I used
VS2005 and v3.3.
I had no problem with resize the text
but when I create new horizontal/
vertical groups, text on tabs on the new group fall back to smaller size.

>Hi Gregory,
>
>thanks a lot for your reply. Your solution works with arial or tahoma, but not with microsoft sans serif. tahoma is fine for me.
>
>Philipp

[Mano J]

Hi Ken,

This is because the TabbedMDIManager calculates the tabGroupHosts and apply the tabFont to the tabs in those tabHosts. When you create a new Horizontal TabGroup, that particular tab moves out of the tabGroupHost count, and it''s font changes itself to its original size.

However if you create a Horizontal TabGroup and then apply the TabFont, it will work.

Instead of using the above code snippet, you could handle the tabControlAdded event to change the Font.

this.tabbedMDIManager.TabControlAdded += new TabbedMDITabControlEventHandler(tabbedMDIManager_TabControlAdded);

private void tabbedMDIManager_TabControlAdded(object sender, TabbedMDITabControlEventArgs args)
{
	args.TabControl.Font = new Font("MS Comic Sans", 12);
	args.TabControl.ActiveTabFont = new Font("MS Comic Sans", 14);
}


Let me know if this meets your requirements.

Regards,
Mano
            

[Ken]

Thanks. That is what I found. But
it does not work for Custom Controls
provided by Syncfusion example.
Thanks
>Hi Ken,
>
>This is because the TabbedMDIManager calculates the tabGroupHosts and apply the tabFont to the tabs in those tabHosts. When you create a new Horizontal TabGroup, that particular tab moves out of the tabGroupHost count, and it''s font changes itself to its original size.
>
>However if you create a Horizontal TabGroup and then apply the TabFont, it will work.
>
>Instead of using the above code snippet, you could handle the tabControlAdded event to change the Font.
>

>this.tabbedMDIManager.TabControlAdded += new TabbedMDITabControlEventHandler(tabbedMDIManager_TabControlAdded);
>
>private void tabbedMDIManager_TabControlAdded(object sender, TabbedMDITabControlEventArgs args)
>{
>	args.TabControl.Font = new Font("MS Comic Sans", 12);
>	args.TabControl.ActiveTabFont = new Font("MS Comic Sans", 14);
>}
>
>
>Let me know if this meets your requirements.
>
>Regards,
>Mano
            

[Mano J]

Hi Ken,

Could you please provide the exact requirement you are trying to do? It will be helpful to us in working out this issue.

Regards,
Mano