Tab Controls

[Sean Kelly]

Hi All,

Silly question time again.

I have a form which has a treeview down teh left as a menu, a grid to the right and a tabcontrol across the bottom. Now depending on which option is selected from the treeview a relevant grid is made visible in the right side and there is the choice of a few available, this all works fine, however i'd like to do something similar with the tabcontrol at the bottom but seem to be having problems.

Eg

Grid A is displayed on right hand side.
Tabcontrol 1 with tabpages pagea1, pagea2, pagea3 are visible (some tabs with more grids in them.

When the ioption to display grid b is chosen, then
Grid A is hidden and Grid B loaded and made visible
I would then like
TabControl2 to display with pageb1, pageb2 etc to display

Is this possible, I have no difficulty in dragging numerous grids to the form and placing them over each otehr, but when i try to do it with a tabcontrol it fails or tries to load the new control within a tabpage.

Any ideas

 

[JohnH]

You just have to be 'careful' when moving one over the other, you will see the drop mouse pointer if a drag-into operation is perceived, just move a little to the side and position it back again. If you still don't find out how to do it, just set the location equal in properties.

 

[Sean Kelly]

Still couldn't get it to work, probably as I'd docked the original control and filled the section of screen, it was having none of it. I got round it by changing the dock fill to within the code and leaving the tab control as small on the designer.

Thanks for your advice anyway, much appreciated