> Hi *,
>
> I have created a custom TabControl (inherited from the default one). The
> only thing that's still missing is to customize the behaviour when the
> horizontal extension of the tab-strips exceeds the TabControl's width. In
> this case, the original TabControl displays those two buttons on the top
> right with which one can move between visible and invisible strips.
>
> I wonder as to whether one could ...
> 1. find out whether the buttons are being displayed or not and when this
> happens
> 2. hide the buttons and replace them with my custom ones
>
> 1. if there is no property that I overlooked this could at least be done
> "manually" by i.e. comparing the overall width of all visible TabStrips to
> the width of the control, although I would think that there really should
> be some mechanism built into the control. Also, tracking the position of a
> tab when i.e. the first one is not the visible one will produce quite some
> work I guess.
>
> 2. is pretty annoying. It seems that those buttons are kind of "pushed"
> into the control without publishing them as one would expect. That is,
> they
> seem to be buried in the Win32 API that the control must be based on.
> Thus,
> I seem to be unable to even retrieve their location and size. Also,
> drawing
> "over" them doesn't work as they will be drawn on top of whatever my code
> draws.
>
> Has anyone succeeded in replacing them with their own code ..?
>
> Cheers,
> Olaf

Martin M wrote:

> Would you like to try the XTabControl from SpringSys?