Changing the Tabs' appearance - DockableWindow/TabStripPanel for Windows Forms Forum

Posted 20 years ago by cshaw

Is there any way (besides overriding OnPaint()) to change the appearance of the TSP? I'm looking for something more like the tabs in System.Windows.Forms.TabControl, where inactive tabs look more like tabs and less like a '|'-delimited list.

Thanks,
--cs

Comments (1)

Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi,

You probably want to check out our UIStudio control suite. That is brand new and will release TabStripPanel after its final 1.0 release. UIStudio has a TabStrip control that supports total rendering customization. We provide six different renderers with the control but you can make your own. You just override the various methods of the TabStripRenderer class and you can draw/measure however you want. Some of our samples look more like normal tabs too since they are modelled after the VS.NET 2005 style of tool windows.

However to answer your question, in TabStripPanel overriding OnPaint is the way to go.

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v2.0.0208) was released 20 years ago, which was after the last post in this thread.