possible to hide the tabcontrol tabs

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   Is it possible to hide the tabs of the tabcontrol ? My intention is to change the tabitems only by code and disallow this for the user by hiding the tabs ?

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tobi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 09 September 2004 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 451	Post Options Post Reply Quote tobi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: possible to hide the tabcontrol tabs Posted: 05 January 2006 at 12:06pm
	Is it possible to hide the tabs of the tabcontrol ? My intention is to change the tabitems only by code and disallow this for the user by hiding the tabs ?

JamesH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 December 2004 Status: Offline Points: 149	Post Options Post Reply Quote JamesH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 January 2006 at 4:49pm
	Can't you just close/show each pane pragmatically instead of having them be tabbed?

tobi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 09 September 2004 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 451	Post Options Post Reply Quote tobi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 January 2006 at 8:20am
	Dear JamesH, my intention is to show different forms in the mainform�s area depending on user actions. Until now I haven�t found a good solution to do this in VB6. So I tried to use the tabcontrol to do this. But in this case I must have to hide the caption tabs... Do you have any ideas how to do this ? Thank you very much

JamesH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 December 2004 Status: Offline Points: 149	Post Options Post Reply Quote JamesH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 January 2006 at 10:48am
	Hey Tobi, Sorry I was confused. I thought you were using tabbed docking panes not just the tab control. I think you could do what you're describing with docking panes and just close them when you don't want them displayed. Cheers, - James

dbilbija Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 08 March 2006 Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote dbilbija Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 March 2006 at 2:41pm
	hi guys i have the EXACT same question. if i have a treeview on the left, for example, and the user clicks on the "users" node, i'd like the user form to be displayed in the right hand side. the 1st thing i thought of was to have a single tab control and display the tab based on the treeview click event. i guess docking panes would work.... have you guys tried it? is it simple to code? dushan bilbija

JamesH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 December 2004 Status: Offline Points: 149	Post Options Post Reply Quote JamesH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 March 2006 at 2:48pm
	It works for me, but I'm not sure why you would need to go to that extent. If you have a fixed area beside the tree control can't you just display differnet child windows there based on what's selected? If there is more than one child window displayed at a time you could do this with docking panes which would allow users to configure the layout.

dbilbija Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 08 March 2006 Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote dbilbija Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 March 2006 at 2:52pm
	so your thought is to make it an mdi form? my idea was to have an sdi form, with a treeview (or shortcut bar, or commandbar, or toolbox) on the left side and a different form displayed in the client area when the user clicks on a left hand pane item. kinda like outlook does... a listview for mail, a calendar view for calendar, etc. dushan

younicke Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 11 March 2005 Status: Offline Points: 107	Post Options Post Reply Quote younicke Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 March 2006 at 6:04am
	i have the same problem before as i am trying to mimic the outlook behavior wherein shortcutbar is on the left side and tabcontrol on the right side. however there is no direct command to hide the tab of the tabcontrol. but i have found a workaround and it works fine with my project. i used tabcontrol and i set the buttonmargin (top and bottom) of the tabcontrol to negative values and it works. so whenever i click on shortcutbar i am removing the existing tab on the tabcontrol and then inserting a new form to the tabcontrol hope this would help!