TabControl leaves me wanting more

Hot Topic

Help needed .
How to wipe off the dashed lines of focus button
Results do not display in List Box
Encrypting password field in SQL table.
SQL connection with Typed Dataset.
.net 2005 Setup Project ... help
Making a form fade in
Can not receive animals
Ambient Properties Question
Batch Insert

Windows Forms

AutoResizeColumns gives operation exception
Listview Add Item
LShiftKey doesn't work
Is Click Once for me?
Customizing treeview
email program - connect to server w/ uName and PW
Dockable windows with pin and autohide feature
datset
How can I "invoke" files displayed in a listview using a context menu?
Applications Settings shared between projects

TabControl leaves me wanting more

I've got an application that has a TabControl with some tab pages on it. I'd like the users to be able to close a tab if they dont want it any more. The tab control will add the left and right arrows if there are more tab pages than can fit on the tab control, so that you can move down the list of tabs. However, I can not find an intuitive way to allow the user to close the selected tab during runtime. What would be ideal is if there was a way to put a button in the TabControl header, like the left and right arrows, that could close the selected tab. Only thing is that the TabControl won't allow you to place a button in the header. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this



Answer this question

TabControl leaves me wanting more

  • Code Dragon

    I understand what you guys are saying and i recognize that. I was hoping I had overlooked it somehow or that someone had a simple yet effective solution developed. This is for a design class and how well my design is directly affects my grade for the class. Although both these choices work, and until I find a better way to do it, I am just making a context menu available by right clicking the tab. It's silly but...

  • Robert E Wilson

    i just dont understand why this isnt a defualt option. Seems so intuitive, you shouldn't have to have a work around...

  • vbnetway

    You can probably do this by placing a transparent window on top of the tabcontrol. This is how the windows forms designer (for example) displays its selection glyphs so you can resize the TabControl.

  • Sarang Baheti

    Hi,

    I don't know if it cana help you but...

    for other reason I'm using the dockPanel control (look on SourceForge) and instead of a document I have created a form with standard control.

    For every tab i create a new instance of this form with correct data.

    The visual effect is similar to tabcontrol but better on refresh.

    I hope this help you.

    corrado

  • Ovais Mehboob

    Hi,

    This is a limitation of the underlying native Tab Control.

    Another work around is to have a button on your Form. When the user clicks the button, you can then remove the tab page from the tab control. Not as pretty as what Ben suggests, but easier to implement.



  • TabControl leaves me wanting more
Answer this question