Hide Tab Control's tab..

[Djordhan]

Hello,

Is there a way to hide the tab at the top of the tab control ?

I would like to switch tabs using other buttons in the UI. I know you can make the tabs looks like buttons but I want my buttons somewhere else.

Or if you know any other way to have multiple sets of controls in the same UI and hide/show them whit buttons it's fine too

Thanks a lot!

[martin]

Hello,

Is there a way to hide the tab at the top of the tab control ?

I would like to switch tabs using other buttons in the UI. I know you can make the tabs looks like buttons but I want my buttons somewhere else.

Or if you know any other way to have multiple sets of controls in the same UI and hide/show them whit buttons it's fine too

Thanks a lot!

You can use child windows. Create all the controls for one set on one child windows like this

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$hG = GUICreate("")
$but1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Set 11",20,20)
$but2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("set2",200,20)
$hCh1 = GUICreate("",200,200,100,100,$WS_CHILD,-1,$hG);child window with parent as $hG
GUICtrlCreateLabel("I'm on set 1",20,50)
GUISetState()

$hCh2 = GUICreate("",200,200,100,100,$WS_CHILD,-1,$hG);child window with parent as $hG
GUICtrlCreateLabel("I'm on set 2",40,80)
GUISwitch($hG)
GUISetState()


while 1
    switch GUIGetMsg()
        case -3
            Exit
        case $but1
            GUISetState(@SW_HIDE,$hCh2)
            GUISetState(@SW_SHOW,$hCh1)
            case $but2
            GUISetState(@SW_HIDE,$hCh1)
            GUISetState(@SW_SHOW,$hCh2)
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Or, if you want to have a tab with hidden tabs then simply put the tabcontrol on a child window and set the top to be minus some valu so the tabs are above the top of the cjild window and then they will be hidden.

Edited June 10, 2011 by martin

[Djordhan]

This should do the work thank you!!

I never worked with child windows, looking at your code I assume that labels are added to the latest GUI you created right ? So the order of creation is very important in that case I guess ?

[martin]

This should do the work thank you!!

I never worked with child windows, looking at your code I assume that labels are added to the latest GUI you created right ? So the order of creation is very important in that case I guess ?

Yes, the controls created are on the last gui created or on the gui you switch to using GuiSwitch.