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TabControl left or right -- text not visible

Hi,

I create a new WindowForms app and drag a tabcontrol on it.
It has (by default) two pages.
When I set the Alignment to left (or right) the Text disappears and the Multiline property is set to true.

The text is visible if I use Button or Flatbutton but not with normal.

The positive - in .NET 1.1 new added pages "stacked" and now they are vertical one after another.

But with the buttons and multiline it makes a big distance ("border") between the buttons and the pages.

Is it possible to have the thing with a visible left text in Appearance Normal?

Cheers Manfred

[590 byte] By [ManniAT] at [2008-2-6]
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# 1
Hi,

I just tried it and got no problem...
But the multiline is being set to true, but I think its the expected behavior...
I really can't figure it out, could it be on your installation? Or have you tried changing the fonts maybe?

cheers,
Paul June A. Domag

PaulDomag at 2007-8-21 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms General...
# 2
Hi Paul,

thanks for your answer.
I use B2 on a german Winows XP Pro SP2.

I create a new project - change nothing (!!) drag the thing on the form, swicht to left - and the text is gone.

Cheers

Manfred

ManniAT at 2007-8-21 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms General...
# 3
The TabControl with appearance set to normal and visual styles on for the system does not support alignments other than top. This is an OS limitation in the WC_TABCONTROL window class that the TabControl wraps.

- mike

MikeHarsh at 2007-8-21 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms General...
# 4
Hi Mark,

but bottom works fine for me. And for paul also left (as he posted above).
However I just found it by "mishitting" the combobox - what I needed was bottom Smile

Thanks

Manfred

ManniAT at 2007-8-21 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms General...
# 5
Of course I not only showed the MS guys earlier in the beta how to overcome this problem, but sent them code so that rendering works top/bottom/left/right with visual styles, so this is simply a matter of appathy thinking that it's acceptable to release a control that doesn't work in 3 out of 4 cases....
Something like the broken DateTimePicker and the combo box that doesn't allow ID/Name lists that aren't bound to data sources STILL even though we had it in VB6....
*sigh*
JohnGalt at 2007-8-21 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms General...
# 6
why does the bottom only place the tab at the bottom but do not display the tab as inversed tabs? i think it is not estetic since it seems that the page is bellow
CiNN at 2007-8-21 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms General...
# 7
JohnGalt wrote:
but sent them code so that rendering works top/bottom/left/right with visual styles

Do You can send this code to me too?
vlad(at)argoi(dot)net (antispam)

Thank You

vserd at 2007-8-21 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms General...
# 8

Hi,

I am facing the same problem. The text disappears after the tabcontrol alignment is set to left. I am using MS Visual Studio 5.

Any solution for this?

Thanks,

Jeevan

Jeevann at 2007-8-21 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms General...
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