Left or Right Tab Alignment missing text

[Guest]

I want to create tabs in the TabControl that are aligned on either the right
or left side, but no text shows when doing this. Is there an issue here or a
work around. Text for tabs on top or bottom are just fine. I'm using VS
2005.

 

[Luke Zhang [MSFT]]

Hello Steve,

To set Text property for the tabs in a tabcontrol, we can select the tab
page and specify its Text property in the Properties Window. Can this help
resolve the problem? ( If misunderstood the issue, please feel free to
correct me)

Sincerely,

Luke Zhang

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[Guest]

I understand how to set the location of the tabs. That is not the issue.
When I set the tabs to be either left or right the text on the tab does not
show. It only shows text on the tab if you select top or bottom. Is this a
bug?

 

[Mick Doherty]

When Visual Styles are enabled the text does not show. It is not classed as
a bug because the TabControl only supports Top Aligned Tabs when using
Visual Styles.

You can workaround this isue by drawing the tabs yourself. In VS2005 this is
not too difficult as VisualStyleRenderer will help you out.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.visualstyles.visualstylerenderer.aspx

You will need to Inherit from TabControl and set ControlStyles.UserPaint to
true in order to stop the control from painting it's default borders.
http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html --> A Completely OwnerDraw
TabControl.

If you don't want the hassle of drawing the control youself, then you could
use TabControlEx instead. This control is written for Framework 1.1 but
works just fine with Framework 2.
http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/controls.html