Programmatically create new page in tab control?

[Noxious]

Greetings,

I am trying to create a UI that can be used across many applications and am (thus far) unable to programmatically create/delete a new page on a tab control. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[Francois Normandin]

Greetings,

I am trying to create a UI that can be used across many applications and am (thus far) unable to programmatically create/delete a new page on a tab control. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

You cannot create tabs dynamically (at Runtime) because it needs recompiling the code. You can only do it at development time. If in Dev environment, then there is a method for Adding/Removing tabs.

Search the forums to find the solutions proposed to get around this problem, it's been asked many times and based on your application, an alternative solution might already be out there waiting...Creating all your tabs beforehand and hiding some based on your different UIs is one of them.

[JustinThomas]

It is not possible to create pages on the fly during runtime for a Tab Control. I generally do this kind of thing using a 'subpanel'. If you could post what you are trying to achieve people on the forum can give alternate suggestions

Edited January 27, 2010 by JustinThomas

[ScubaBob]

Here is what i have come up with for creating tabcontrol and pages at runtime in vb2005

Dim i As Integer

Dim temp As TabControl() = New TabControl(1) {}

Dim SComp2 As String() = Nothing

Dim CNT As Integer = 0

temp(CNT) = New TabControl

temp(CNT).Name = sString(3)

temp(CNT).Location = New System.Drawing.Point(Val(sString(5)), Val(sString(6)))

temp(CNT).Size = New System.Drawing.Size(Val(sString(7)), Val(sString(8)))

temp(CNT).Tag = Val(sString(2))

'temp(CNT).TextAlign = ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter

'temp(CNT).ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black

'temp(CNT).BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightSalmon

SComp2 = sString(4).Split(";")

For i = 0 To SComp2.GetUpperBound(0)

temp(CNT).TabPages.Add(SComp2(i))

Next i

For Each ctrl As Control In SplitContainer1.Panel1.Controls

If TypeOf ctrl Is GroupBox Then

If CType(ctrl, GroupBox).Tag = Val(sString(1)) Then

CType(ctrl, GroupBox).Controls.Add(temp(CNT))

End If

End If

Next

Edited February 23, 2010 by ScubaBob

[Mark Yedinak]

Here is what i have come up with for creating tabcontrol and pages at runtime in vb2005

Dim i As Integer

Dim temp As TabControl() = New TabControl(1) {}

Dim SComp2 As String() = Nothing

Dim CNT As Integer = 0

temp(CNT) = New TabControl

temp(CNT).Name = sString(3)

temp(CNT).Location = New System.Drawing.Point(Val(sString(5)), Val(sString(6)))

temp(CNT).Size = New System.Drawing.Size(Val(sString(7)), Val(sString(8)))

temp(CNT).Tag = Val(sString(2))

'temp(CNT).TextAlign = ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter

'temp(CNT).ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black

'temp(CNT).BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightSalmon

SComp2 = sString(4).Split(";")

For i = 0 To SComp2.GetUpperBound(0)

temp(CNT).TabPages.Add(SComp2(i))

Next i

For Each ctrl As Control In SplitContainer1.Panel1.Controls

If TypeOf ctrl Is GroupBox Then

If CType(ctrl, GroupBox).Tag = Val(sString(1)) Then

CType(ctrl, GroupBox).Controls.Add(temp(CNT))

End If

End If

Next

And this helps someone with LabVIEW in what way?