Multiline as Tab Overflow behaviour

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Posted 11 years ago by Aristo - Senior Team Leader, Petrolink Services
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Hi ActiPro

 

Is there any possibility to have multiline tab if length of tab overflows the available space with current Actipro version? If not is there any plan to include it in the future? In some cases, multiline tab is something desirable.

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Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hello, we don't really have any plans to add multiline tab text.  But you could probably do that yourself using features as demonstrated in the Docking Window Header QuickStart.


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Posted 11 years ago by Aristo - Senior Team Leader, Petrolink Services
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Thanks for the answer, but what I mean is not the tab text , rather the Tab Header itself.

It is similar to ordinary TabControl, which allows multiple line of Tab Headers. So outside than using Shrink , Scroll and/or Menu, the tab header would be added to new line.

Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Ah I see... I'll log your request.  You might be able to achieve that on your own if you swap in a custom panel that would support it in the parent container's template.


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Posted 11 years ago by Rahu
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Hi, we also have this as one the main requirement.

Could you please elaborate more on how can we customize TabOverflowBehavior to support multi-line/multi-row tab headers?

Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Rahu,

If you mean for the TabbedMdiContainer control (tabbed MDI), you'd probably need to make an implicit Style for TabbedMdiContainer in your application's Resources and add a Setter for the ItemsPanel property with a value that is an ItemsPanelTemplate containing a custom Panel. 

The custom Panel would need to have your multi-line layout logic in it.  Our built-in default panel doesn't have multi-line support at this time.


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Posted 11 years ago by Rahu
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Thanks.

It worked!

The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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