Tab Pro

The number one organizational component

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 Tab Pro contains the most flexible tab control available. Named "the tab control of choice" in a national review and used by developers around the world, Tab Pro is the easiest and quickest way to enhance your application's appearance using a tab metaphor. Whether taking advantage of its eight pre-defined appearance styles or dynamically changing the tab's appearance in response to your user, Tab Pro gives you the most comprehensive tab feature set to customize any application.

 

General Features

• Choose from eight pre-defined appearance styles
• Bind the Tab Pro controls to ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.x using OLE DB technology [still supports data binding to Data Access Objects (DAO) and Remote Data Objects (RDO)]
• Implements apartment-model threading
• Design time support for setting pictures, plus metafile support
• Many color properties default to system colors
• Tab ActiveX control provides optimized intelligent scanning and loading of child controls
• Define the number of tabs per row and the number of rows of tabs
• Create a book chapter effect by assigning multiple pages to one tab
• Set the header width by allowing the text in the headers to wrap to multiple lines or by allowing the text to fit on one line
• Position tab headers on the top, bottom, left or right side
• Bind the tab captions to a database to display field names
• Allow scrolling of non-visible tabs
• Automatically size the tab or imprint control to its parent object in Visual Basic

Custom Appearance

• Customize the look and feel of the tab with 35 book style properties
• Specify one and two page book modes
• Customize the tab's 3-D appearance by specifying the width and/or color of the inner and outer borders
• Choose a header corner shape (chamfered, slanted, squared, or rounded)
• Define the amount of separation between the tab headers
• Insert and align pictures on the tab headers
• Rotate header text in 90-degree increments
• Offset the position of rows

Tab Control

• Increase or decrease the number of tabs at design time or run time
• Specify the picture to display for the earmark to the previous and next page
• Specify the picture to display tiled in the control and on pages
• Rotate header text in 90-degree increments
• Set the tab's 3-D appearance to automatically reflect the current operating environment (Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Windows NT)
• Apply background and foreground colors to the active tab, an individual tab, all tabs, the tab caption area, the tab client area, or the tab pages
• Increase the width or height of the active tab
• Receive notification of tab changes
• Allow your user to preview the tab's contents
• Customize the method and speed that a page is turned

Imprint Control

• Create 3-D frames
• Choose from several 3-D appearances
• Display vertical and horizontal grid lines within the control
• Display text within the grid area
• Rotate text 90 degrees, 180 degrees, or 270 degrees
• Bind the control to a database field