Doh. I just replaced the tabcontrol and it works fine now. Now I am loooking for a panel splitter like Spybot S&D uses. Might be a good project to hone those component building skills after all...:)
> Its a tabcontrol, not a pagecontrol, but it might be > misbehaving anyway. Oops I didnt know about themes. A > bit of googling told me I can compile the manifest into > Delphi as a resource. I will try that thanks. > > > > I tried DevExpress page control and didn't find it very > > useful. We needed extra properties like fonts per page, > > and proper enable/disable. > > > > We ended up developing our own. Was pretty easy. The > > Page Control and the Pages were inherited from TCustom > Panel. > > > TPageControl also works well if you don't want to > > arbirtarily hide or disable tabs. > > You get the mouse over stuff if you have XP themes > > enabled for the application (we use a Manifest file at > > least). I'm not sure what you mean by "expand to the > > text size". TPageControl tabs will resize depending on > > the tab caption. > > > > Stacey > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyley > > Harris Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:38 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NZ Borland Developers Group - > > Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] Tabcontrol > > > > DevExpress has good tab controls, if you don't mind > > spending money. TMS also. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2006 4:28 p.m. > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [DUG] Tabcontrol > > > > Modest request, where can I find a tabcontrol component > > like the one Textpad uses, tabs expand to the text size, > > and has a little hot tracking highlight on mouseover. > > Or should I be trying to write something like that > > myself? I am not that flash at component writing really > > , but I am picking it up ie but I can follow code once I > > am shown :) Thanks > > _______________________________________________ Delphi > > mailing list [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Delphi mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Delphi mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
