Coloring a tab control

[redndahead 0]

Is there any way of coloring the background of a tab control?

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[Josbe 1]

Is there any way of coloring the background of a tab control?

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At the moment, can't do it.

[redndahead 0]

That's too bad...hmmm what to do. Have people determined that it is impossible or just havn't really worked on it yet?

I can still make my app, but I'm afraid it doesn't quite work unless it's a different color.

Hope to see something soon. =)

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[pekster 0]

There is an interesting example floating around somewhere on the forums that shows how to use buttons as tabs. Since you can color buttons, this could work for you. It works by handeling each button press by hiding the controls on the old "tab" and showing the controls on the new "tab."

[Holger 12]

Yeah, could use 'checkboxes' with style "BS_PUSHLIKE" (I think) and then check if one checkbox is 'checked' and 'unchecked'.

So could hide or show different controls.

[redndahead 0]

That's how I used to do it until tabs came around. Do we just know that it is impossible? or is it just going to take a while?

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[Valik 471]

It requires making the tabs owner-drawn. It shouldn't be that hard to do, but I also haven't looked into it myself.

[jpm 42]

Not too hard but a lot of code perhaps too much for the 100K goal as I said long time ago

[redndahead 0]

Sorry jpm if I missed your post. It's unfortunate that the tabs won't be colored because I need to change them to different colors or it hides inside the title bar. I could do the button idea but I like the ease of use of the controls automatically hiding with tabs.

hmmm....

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[commenti 0]

Helllo fellow autoit coders,

I just begun with trying out the gui stuff in AutoIt. I was wondering why I could not color my Tabs (my GUI looks very ugly with gray tabs don´t matching the other colors of my GUI). Good, that I found this thread here in the forum (I thought I was blind, searching the helpfile for a solution...) . So perhaps its worth mentioning in the helpfile that it is not possible.

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[jpm 42]

Helllo fellow autoit coders,

I just begun with trying out the gui stuff in AutoIt. I was wondering why I could not color my Tabs (my GUI looks very ugly with gray tabs don´t matching the other colors of my GUI). Good, that I found this thread here in the forum (I thought I was blind, searching the helpfile for a solution...) . So perhaps its worth mentioning in the helpfile that it is not possible.

commenti

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it is described in the GUISetControl I realize that it can be included too in GUISetControlEx

Thanks to point out the doc

For "tab" control, after creating the main control, each tab can be created by first create an "tabitem" follows by the creation of the controls which are located on this tab. To terminate the tab control just create a last "tabitem" control with a null text "". The Left and Top parameters on "tabitem" are not relevant, just mandatory as for other control definition. The "tabitem" control cannot be painted (too much code ...). Only one tab can be created by dialog box.