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vertical tabs under Windows

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

I was looking at the MSDN documentation about tabs and came across this page. It's actually a very informative page.

In the url below, it shows an example of how a vertical tab (ie: if you have 8 or more tabs) should look. Is this screenshot actually a "pagecontrol" component (in terms of Delphi or LCL) with tab alignment on left - meaning that horizontal tabs (as we normally know them) automatically become a listbox style when tab alignment is left or right?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511493.aspx#guidelines

I always thought vertical tabs under windows are just like horizontal tabs, but turned on there side (even the text goes from top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top). I much prefer the look as show in the screenshot, but not sure if that is actually how vertical tabs automatically look in newer Windows versions, or if they simply "simulated" a page control by using a listbox and panel/frames.

Regards,
- Graeme -

fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net:8080/fpgui/

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Marc Weustink
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 10 lines
Hi, I was looking at the MSDN documentation about tabs and came across this page. It's actually a very informative page. In the url below, it shows an example of how a vertical tab (ie: if you have 8 or more tabs) should look. Is this screenshot actually a "pagecontrol" component (in terms of Delphi or LCL) with tab alignment on left - meaning that horizontal tabs (as we normally know them) automatically become a listbox style when tab alignment is left or right?

Nope, this is not a tabcontrol.
Left/Right tabs are not supported by since XP-themes. There is nothing automatic here.

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511493.aspx#guidelines I always thought vertical tabs under windows are just like horizontal tabs, but turned on there side (even the text goes from top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top). I much prefer the look as show in the screenshot, but not sure if that is actually how vertical tabs automatically look in newer Windows versions, or if they simply "simulated" a page control by using a listbox and panel/frames.

It's a listbox and "frames" (or just hide&show controls)

Marc

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