I want to change size of TabPage in my TabControl,
each tab should be in one line without scroll.
the second question is about how to change Text into Image like here (Please, ignore the green line):
edit. I used Winforms.
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There is no way to adjust width of tab pages to fit width you want automatically, so you just have to do some maths to achieve this.
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First you have to create an ImageList object, which you will then pass to your TabControl:
ImageList il = new ImageList();
il.Images.Add("your_graphics_name", Image.FromFile(#"C:\Graphics\example.png"));
(...)
yourTabControl.ImageList = il;
Then you can set specific image from your image list on your tab page by giving it's key:
yourTabControl.TabPages.Add("title", "text", "your_graphics_name");
The size and layout of tabs is quite strictly controlled in WinForms. You can of course change the font and font size which will have an implicit effect on the size of the tabs, but this isn't what you want to do by the sounds of things.
Now apparently Windows does allow you to regulate the minimum default tab width, but you can't do it directly with the out-of-the-box WinForm control. This article explains how: How can i make WinForms TabPage header width fit it's title?.
You may want to consider a 3rd party tab control if this begins to pose a serious problem for you design-wise.
Like others said you can't change width of your tabs. But you can make your tabs for example in two rows, if they don't match the screen:
tabControl.Multiline = true;
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I want to make the backgroundImage of my tabPages spread out to the available size.
According to other topics here on StackOverflow, I set the BackgroundImageLayout in my Forms properties to Stretch, but my background image is still being displayed as a tile.
Is there another flag I have to set? I feel like the seemingly global property does not quite affect tabPages.
PS: If it is of any significant matter, the picture is being added at runtime.
EDIT: This is how my Picture is being added to the tabpage as background:
TabPage tab = new TabPage();
tab.BackgroundImage = Image.FromFile(*path*);
tabControl.TabPages.Add(tab);
while tabControl is passed as a parameter inside the class, coming straight from my Form via this.tabControl
The fetching of the image works.
Also, the stretch attribute is currently set inside the forms properties.
a BackgroundImage object has more properties, and one of those is the placement of the image constrains... the available layouts are:
None
Tile
Center
Stretch
Zoom
play with those and choose the one that fit your needs:
tab.BackgroundImageLayout = ImageLayout.Stretch;
as it probably be a fixed layout, you can also use the UI for given the correct layout, but it's up to you...
I already tried putting a back color for each of the tab pages - but the extra space for the buttons of the tab control still takes the default color.
You could make the window smaller overall, to be the width of the list of tabs. Although I'm not sure if you can sacrifice the space.
Other than that, I'm not sure if you can with the default Windows Controls. Try looking into something like Infragistics, which adds on to the default windows controls with their own.
I have 3 buttons in my form. What I need to do is when I make the actual form bigger or smaller, the buttons should change their position and size so they look good, so they wouldn't remain the same size and position. I tried to use the anchors, but that does not work very well. What can I use to solve my problem?
You can check dock and anchor properties
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afsx1IJULLI
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.dock(v=vs.110).aspx
You should set both left and right, or top and bottom anchors to resize control. If you'll set only one anchor from these pairs, then control will be positioned instead of resizing.
Docking will resize control, because it is equivalent of setting three or more anchors.
Try using TableLayoutPanel, put your buttons inside the columns of the table
Look good is different all the time. I like placing buttons in StackPanel and setting AutoSize property to true. This fixes two issues:
If user has 150% font in Windows settings - your UI does not break;
if you resize window to be very small - your buttons do not enforce minimal width/height and adapt to ratio user has chosen
My Windows Forms Applications project has a TabControl with Imagelist. What I need is square tabs with big Icons and Labels aligned Bottom.
Any suggestions?
I presume you mean you would like to change the tab "labels"
I don't think you can put the label underneath the image on a TabControl using just properties; but you could edit the images to contain the text. You can then remove the text from each TabPage to rely entirely on your images.
To make the tabs "square" set the SizeMode to Fixed and set your own size values (e.g. 42,42). You can then set the ImageSize to something similar (e.g. 40,40).
That should achieve what you are after, although you will have to update your images...
note: ImageSize property is a "subproperty" of the Images property of the TabControl.
note: As Hans Passant has said above, it seems you can put text under image by setting DrawMode and handling DrawItem - see this question: Windows Forms C# TabControl ImageList Alignment?.
Simple question I hope.... I have a Win Form with a Tab Control and 12 tabs. When I added the eight table (and higher), the scroll bar in the tab header appears and you have to scroll with that control to view the extra tabs. How can you change the layout so that the tabs all show, without the scroll bar? Is it possible to have them appear "stacked" or "Multiline"?
Set the Multiline property to true.
tabControl1.Multiline = true;
As simple as that.
I don't think I've seen what you're describing before unless for some reason I've accidentally haven't set the proper width of the control. Have you tried setting the width to something less than the width of the area you're describing....and maybe make sure to use a pixel value vs. a percentage just to narrow it down perhaps.