jacksiroke / mditabctrl

A highly configurable MDI tab control for c# to use as tabbed MDI forms.

MDI TAB CONTROL

Well behold a highly configurable MDI tab control for c# to use as tabbed MDI forms

FEATURES OF THIS CONTROL

This tab control is specific to creating a MDI interface with one tab page for each form. Some of the behaviours that were implemented are:

1. Always open the new page at the first tab
2. Hide the tab pages that can't fit in the screen
3. Don't scroll tab pages, instead, bring a hidden tab page to the first position when it's selected
4. Have a list of the tab pages (forms) in a drop down menu
5. Ability to reorder tabs by dragging
6. Easy owner draw
7. Close button at the tab
8. Clicking on overlapped part of the tab does not select the other tab and also
9. Clicking outside the border doesn't select the tab (achieved by the Region property)
10. Expose the maximum of functionality and configurability as possible
11. Very simple to use

WHAT CAN BE CUSTOMIZED IN THIS CONTROL

Almost everything. To understand the control, let's take a look at the objects and regions.

• The first two lines are the TopSeparator
• Followed by the TabTop
• On the left the Tabs area
• On the right the Control Buttons area
• The space between the tabs is the TabOffset
• All the bottom part is the form

HOW TO USE THIS CONTROL

• MDI Tab Control Wiki

Nuget Package

• MDI Tab Control

mditabctrl's Issues

Documentation: How to use this in my project

Autoscroll does not work

I tried the sample project and added a few controls and labels and set the autoscroll to true.
When I resized the main window there were no scrollbar present. I might have missed something or this feature had not been implemented? Thank you for the great project.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Hi,

After installing via Nuget when I try to view my Form (designer) in Visual Studio 2019 I get the following error message:

Any idea how to solve this as it keeps appearing even after restarting VS2019?

Thanks

Tab active

I can't figure out how to make the tab active if it is already open. I will be very grateful for the hint. I use the c# Windows Forms, Nuget package.

To open the desired tab, I use the following code:
Form cform;
cform = new Profile();
if (Application.OpenForms.OfType().Any())
{
return;
}
tabControl1.TabPages.Add(cform);

I need to go to the tab with this form if the form is already open.

Multiple tabs cannot display scrollbars

Hello, this control is very useful. If you have a question, please ask for advice. How to display the scroll bar when I have more than ten or more, I have set the automatic scroll bar, but it has no effect

How to show the New Tab button

How can I show/enable the New Tab button as shown on the ReadMe page?

Thanks