TabControlAdv DrawItem

[Julie Levy]

Hi -
I am using the DrawItem event to set a gradient background to the tabstrip area outside of the tabs. The problem is that it only draws the active tab page's tab at the top, not the inactive one. When i click in the general area of the inactive tab, then it appears, but the other one is gone. How can i always draw both? The style is Office2003. My code is below.
Thanks,
Julie

void tbBody_DrawItem(object sender, DrawTabEventArgs drawItemInfo)
{

Rectangle TabControlArea = tbBody.ClientRectangle;
Rectangle TabArea = tbBody.DisplayRectangle;
Rectangle topStrip = new Rectangle(TabControlArea.X, TabControlArea.Y,
TabControlArea.Right, TabControlArea.Height - TabArea.Height);
Brush br = new LinearGradientBrush(topStrip, Color.White, System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(187, 194, 214), System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientMode.Vertical);
drawItemInfo.Graphics.FillRectangle(br, topStrip);
br.Dispose();

drawItemInfo.DrawBackground();
drawItemInfo.DrawBorders();
drawItemInfo.DrawInterior();

}

[Julie]

Any response

[Jisha Joy]

Hi Julie,

Thank you for using Syncfusion Products.

The issue can be solved by using the inbuilt method GetTabRect of TabControlAdv to get the tab rectangle and we can use it in the LinearGradientBrush and FillRectangle methods. Here is the code snippets:

 void tabControlAdv1_DrawItem(object sender, Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DrawTabEventArgs drawItemInfo)
        {            
            Brush  br = new LinearGradientBrush(this.tabControlAdv1.GetTabRect(drawItemInfo.Index), Color.White, System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(187, 194, 214),    System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientMode.Vertical);         
            drawItemInfo.Graphics.FillRectangle(br, this.tabControlAdv1.GetTabRect(drawItemInfo.Index));
            br.Dispose();
            drawItemInfo.DrawBackground();
            drawItemInfo.DrawBorders();
            drawItemInfo.DrawInterior();
                    
        }


Please refer the sample that illustrates this:

http://websamples.syncfusion.com/samples/Tools.Windows/69042/main.htm

Please try this and let me know if this helps.

Regards,
Jisha
            

[Julie Levy]

thanks, i'll try it out.