Colours in Tab Splitters/Tab Pages

[Ben Fraser]

Hello,

Easy ones today; I want to set the colour of the text on TabBarPage tab individually.

TabBarSplitterControls' ForeColor property sets the colour of the text, but for all tabs and for all text, including that in the grid.

TabBarPages' TabBackColour property works on individual tabs but sets the background not the text.

Which property in which class do I set to operate on the text in the individual tab?

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Seperately, how do I set the background colour of the TabBarSplitterControl as shown down the bottom around the tabs? BackColor just leaves the dull gray default in place for me.

Thanks,
Ben

[Administrator]

There is not a simple property exposed to do this. The painting of the Text is done is controlled through some sealed static classes and an interface implemented by the TabBar class. It would take some coding to try to control the text property through the existing library code and I am not sure what kinds of problems you might run into as you try to do this. It would be better if we just add a TabBarPage.TextColor property. I will forward this request onto the development team for their consideration. You can create a Direct Trac incident to follow up on this issue and track the status of this request.

[Administrator]

On looking at the code a little further, it looks like we should be able to allow TabBarPage.ForeColor to control the text color on individual tabs. Right now, the text color is coming from parent.ForeColor. Thus every tab gets the parent's ForeColor. So, we should not have to add a new property to expose this functionality.

[Ben Fraser]

Hi Clay,

Thanks. I've created a direct track incident for the tab text colour problem.

About setting the background colour of the TabBarSplitterControl; we're using the Office2007 themes in the grid and want to set a colour similar to the theme in the background of the tab splitter. Is it possible to do this?

Cheers,
Ben

[Jeba S]

Hi Ben,

Thank you for your interest in Syncfusion Essential Studio.

The question you have posted has raised some very significant issues, as this might be a FeatureRequest. We will get back to you within 2 business days with a complete response after due analysis of these issues.

Thank you for your patience.

Regards,
Jeba.

[Jeba S]

Hi Ben,

The Support for Office 2007 scroll bars has been added in our new code base for TabBarSplitterControl. You can enable them using the following properties:

TabBarSplitterControl.Office2007ScrollBars = true;
TabBarSplitterControl.Office2007ScrollBarsColorScheme = Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Office2007ColorScheme.Black;

But this feature will be available in our next version[5.2 version].

Kindly let us know if you need any more information.

Best Regards,
Jeba.