ctlUniMDITabs Control
An Unicode component that permits you to organize your MDI child windows using a Top or Bottom tabulator like the Microsoft Visual Studio environment.
Check common properties here
Enums
| Name | Description |
|---|
Events
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| CloseWindow | Raised when someone clicks the "X" button of a tab |
| WindowChanged | Raised when the active MDI child changes |
| TabClick | Raised when the user clicks over a Tab |
| TabBarClick | Raised when the user clicks the Tabulator bar |
| DrawingCaptionText | Raised before writing the form caption on the Tab; by managing this event and changing the passed "sWindowText" string you can return Unicode captions for your forms (see the Sample 1) |
Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AllowScroll | (Boolean) | Permits the tabulator to scroll horizontally |
| AutoClose | (Boolean) | If enabled, the control automatically closes the active MDI child window when the "X" button is pressed |
| CanDragTabs | (Boolean) | Enables the user to move the tabs |
| Font | (iFont) | Gets or sets the font used for text in the control, check the [ApplyFontChanges] for details |
| SelectedFont | (iFont) | Gets or sets the font used for text when displaying the selected tabulator |
| ShowTabs | (Boolean) | Temporary enables/disables the control |
| TabAlignTop | (Boolean) | Should the Tabs be displayed on the top? |
Methods
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ApplyFontChanges | When setting a new font on the control you need to call this function in order to refresh the interface | |
| Attach | Starts the control activity | |
| Detach | Stops the control activity | |
| Refresh | Permits you to refresh the MDI Tabulator; useful when for example when a form caption is changed at run-time |
Remarks
How to use this control:
Simply draw it on a MDI container form and in the MDIForm_Load event attach it to the form using the [Attach] method.
Simply draw it on a MDI container form and in the MDIForm_Load event attach it to the form using the [Attach] method.