Is there a way to set the visibility of a single tab in a tabcontrol? I thought something simple like this should work, but does not seem to to anything.
tabControl1.TabPages[1].Visible = false;
tabControl1.Refresh();
There will be a main tab that always shows but I want to have other tabs that I can "turn on\off". I don't want to remove the tabs since I may need to show then again.
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Times haven't changed since 2.0:
StackOverflow - How to hide TabPage from TabControl
You can remove the tabControl page
this.tControl1.TabPages.Remove(this.tControl1.TabPages["tabPageName"]);
It's obviously not part of the standard Windows Forms library, but the Infragistics UltraTabControl has (among other features) a Visible property for each tab page.
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I'm making a windows form application with tabs, and in my first tab I have a overview of the active tabs. Now when I add a new tab, the tabs are going in a sort of scroll bar and when the scrollbar is 'full', my first tab becomes 'out of sight'.
Is there an option to keep the first tab always visible? I've searched around the internet and couldn't find someone with the problem nor solution
I didn't see any property for it yet but you have two way:
1) Create a custom control yourself (long way)
2) Use Multiline property of tabControl and set it to TRUE (Short way)
// Allows more than one row of tabs.
this.tabControl1.Multiline = true;
Result:................................
When you set Multiline to TRUE, it keep all tabs always visible (include first Tab) ;)
Also you can set Appearance property to Bottom or FlatButtons to prevent tabs moving after click on them in different lines.
this.tabControl1.Appearance= TabAppearance.FlatButtons;
No there is not. You would need to design your own control to do this if that is what you want.
Does anyone know if there's a way to fix this issue in .NET/WinForms with the Visual Studio designer?
Basically, if you take a blank form and add a TabControl and then set the Alignment property to Bottom and Appearance property to Buttons (or FlatButtons), the TabControl doesn't have a panel to work with. I can't add any controls to the TabPage at all. Is there a work-around for this? I have a nested TabControl that I want to use bottom/button tab appearance and I can't get this to work at all. I suppose I could use standard buttons with panels that I toggle the visibility on, but that's less than ideal.
Bonus question:
Why when I set the Alignment to Right or Left (Appearance = Buttons) is there such a huge gap between the tabs and the actual panel in the Tab Page?
Thank you!
EDIT: Using .NET 4.0 w/ VS2012
Appearance property = Button is the issue. Modify it to Normal.
I have created a Windows form using a Tab Control, but it has a header with it. I want to hide it. I am not able to do it using any properties of the Tab Control. Is there any property defined for hiding the tab header for the Tab Control without going through the code?
Use following code to hide the tabs or set these properties in design.
tabControl.Appearance = TabAppearance.FlatButtons;
tabControl.ItemSize = new Size(0, 1);
tabControl.SizeMode = TabSizeMode.Fixed;
You want the tab panels without the feature allowing a user to switch between them, so I suppose you want to create few separate sets of controls to be shown to the user one at a time. You can achieve this in several ways (you can choose one of them if you find it appropriate in your case):
Use several Panel controls instead of several tabs in the TabControl, however, it would be hard to work in the designer, because all the controls would be visible
Use different Forms instead of tabs to keep the layout parts separated. It can be ok, but you may not want to use multiple Forms, so it depends on a specific case.
and finally, the suggested solution:
Encapsulate each set of controls in a UserControl. This allows you to keep each layout separately, so you can easily design each of them without the other controls getting in the way ;). The the code handling each of the layouts would also be separated. Then just drag those controls in the Form and use set their visibilities appropriately to show the one you want.
If none of those suggestions work for you, let me know, so I can look for other possible solutions.
It's more easy as you think, you just drag the panel's window upper, so will be outside of the form.
Use DrawMode: OwnerDrawFixed will hide TabPage header text DrawMode : OwnerDrawFixed
Another way to achieve the same (or similar) is: You can remove tabs from TabControl.TabPages collection and then add the tab you want to show.
During the Form initialization I remove tabs (so into the designer I can easily manage them) and in some control event (as button click) I show the tab the user has to see.
Something like that:
// During form load:
ctrTab.TabPages.Clear();
// ......
// During button click or some other event:
if(rbSend.Checked)
ctrTab.TabPages.Add(pgSend);
else
ctrTab.TabPages.Add(pgReceive);
In this way the user can still see the header tab but just as title of controls group, he can't change/switch the current active tab.
I need to create a control which has a single permanent tab ("home"), and all of the other tabs are scrollable.
Right now I am trying to achieve this result by subclassing the TabControl, adding an extra button (which looks like a tab) to the overridden template, and setting the SelectedIndex to -1 whenever the button is clicked. When SelectedIndex is -1, a trigger causes the TabControl's ContentControl to be bound to a special "Home" tab's content. Basically, I am faking the behavior of a real tab and overriding the ability to deselect all tabs in doing so.
This seems to work, except for two problems:
Select example tab #3, then select home. THEN, try to select tab #3 again. Tab #3 doesn't respond.
Select tab #3, then select home. THEN, try to use the menu which happens to be in the same window. When I go to use the menu, #3 pops up as the selected tab again.
I've tried to listen to all kinds of events associated with the TabControl at this point, but none of them seem to give me something I can work with to get around these behaviors.
Is there something out there that will allow me to override the default SelectedIndex behavior? Should I be doing this another way? Ideally, I would like some way to take in a collection of tabs that allows me split up the tabs visually without losing the basic functionality of a TabControl.
The only way I can think of to accomplish this would be to use a custom ControlTemplate for the tab control. You can use StyleSnooper to get the current template. The that is part of that template would need to be replaced with a custom panel that you wrote. You base that on Panel. You would only need to override ArrangeOverride so that it arranged the Home tab in its place, and the others depending on the scroll position.
I was able to implement this by writing my own custom tab panel, as AresAvatar suggested. However, the panel needed to extend from the ConceptualPanel implementation from http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/ConceptualChildren.aspx. The problem is that the panel needs to have IsItemsHost="true" in the TabControl template to preserve the tabs' selection behavior. Unfortunately, once a normal panel is an items host, it's Children can't be changed from inside it's own class code. So, I couldn't add the scroll buttons that I needed. I was able to get around that problem with the ConceptualPanel by adding everything (tabs + scroll buttons) via AddVisualChild.
There might be a better way to do this, but this worked for me.
I want to have buttons that kind of act like tabs - they switch between "pages" of the application. How can I achieve this effect? I'm thinking that I could just put the controls in some kind of container and toggle the visible attribute, but is that plausible?
I am using WinForms.
The reason I don't want to use a tab control is because some of the panels already have tab controls in them..I don't want to create a nested tab hell. I just want some kind of spiffy button based navigation.
You could "attach" button functionality to Panels, then use the panels as the "tabs". You could even create a UserControl that inherently ties them together.
However, a TabControl (for Winforms) already exists that does this. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.tabcontrol.aspx
If you're looking for something for ASP.Net 2.0 and above, you could try the following: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/custom-controls/TabControl.aspx
I think the best option is to use this WinForms TabStrip control -- a subclass of ToolStrip where the buttons are drawn as tabs, and you simply treat them as such programmatically by switching which panel is shown in your container as tabs are selected.