Tab Control

The Tab Control should be used as a direct replacement for the tab control that is native to PowerBuilder.
Using this control can give your application an immediate face-lift. The tab control can be customized in a number of different ways:

• Allow users to move tabs around to change the order.
• Dynamically close all or one tab.
• Display a close button at the end of the tab strip, in the currently selected tab, in all tabs or not at all.
• Allow users to navigate tabs with scroll arrows or with a drop down arrow.
• Dynamically enable, disable, hide or show any tab.
• Open PB userobjects or windows within the tab control.
• Display images and text in each tab.
• Change tab text color.
• There are many styles to choose from, the most popular being the VS2005 style.

Implementation

//Open Event of window that contains the tab control
//Or the post constructor event of the userobject that contains the tab control
//Add images to the tab controls image array
//The first call creates element 1, the second element 2 and so on

uo_tabcontrol.of_AddImage('SQL!')
uo_tabcontrol.of_AddImage('StaticText!')
uo_tabcontrol.of_AddImage('ArrangeIcons!')

uo_tabcontrol.of_OpenTab(iuo_1, 'Toolbarstrip', 1)
uo_tabcontrol.of_OpenTab(iuo_3, 'Shortcutbar', 2)
uo_tabcontrol.of_OpenTab(iuo_4, 'Buttonlistbar', 3)

uo_tabcontrol.of_SelectTab(1)

//Set the tab style to VS2005 uo_tabcontrol.of_SetStyle(uo_tabcontrol.VS2005)