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I don't know of any specifc method of setting the colors of individual tabs.
What I have done in some cases is to put a frame on body of the tab, sized to be the same as the body of the tab, and then setting the background color of the tab. Only downside is that the tab portion itself is not included, but as has been suggested in previous threads, that too can be handled with images.
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What I have done in some cases is to put a frame on body of the tab, sized to be the same as the body of the tab, and then setting the background color of the tab. Only downside is that the tab portion itself is not included, but as has been suggested in previous threads, that too can be handled with images.
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Yes, I've tried that too...but the image on the tab portion still does not cover all the grey...it leaves a border around the edges. To completely eliminate it, I may need to substitute frames and pictures boxes or command buttons and forget about tabs...I'm hoping to find a way though, I hate to do all the work myself when tabs will handle some of it.
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CCLINT...thanks, but I did see that already. Putting a picture box in the picture property of the tab still leaves the grey border though...
By the way, another solution for your idea is to put the picture box in and add a label to the picture box without a border...make the background colors for both the same and center justify the caption in the label...then you only need to change the font bold to true to show the tab as selected...no pictures to swap back and forth, or even to keep track of.
I used this same concept in a status bar...works great.
By the way, another solution for your idea is to put the picture box in and add a label to the picture box without a border...make the background colors for both the same and center justify the caption in the label...then you only need to change the font bold to true to show the tab as selected...no pictures to swap back and forth, or even to keep track of.
I used this same concept in a status bar...works great.
drwunz - Good thought - but extra code will be needed when the user resizes and the tabs wrap....
Yes, my way doesn't color the tabs, it colors the text for the tab captions.
In that case you WILL need to use another third party tab control - or make your own.
Yes, my way doesn't color the tabs, it colors the text for the tab captions.
In that case you WILL need to use another third party tab control - or make your own.
Sorry, what I meant with:
"In that case you WILL need to use another third party tab control - or make your own."
is if you want to color the whole tab, and/or the tab seletors, and not have borders, you will not be able to do this with the control delivered with VB6. (In ACCESS 97/2000 it would be possible to color the tabs).
"In that case you WILL need to use another third party tab control - or make your own."
is if you want to color the whole tab, and/or the tab seletors, and not have borders, you will not be able to do this with the control delivered with VB6. (In ACCESS 97/2000 it would be possible to color the tabs).
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