Adding a margin around a docked container?

[dave]

I have a propery sheet inside of a splitview container. Unfortunately,
it stuff the first tab right up into the top left corner when docked,
which doesn't look good (I'd prefer border). According to the SDK, the
margin setting has no effect when docked, which appears to be true.

Any way to add a margin at all? Even some kind of skinny blank control
I can stick on the top and left that the splitview container then docks
against?

Thanks,
Dave

[Ben Voigt]

<da**@softwareonline.comwrote in message
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>I have a propery sheet inside of a splitview container. Unfortunately,
it stuff the first tab right up into the top left corner when docked,
which doesn't look good (I'd prefer border). According to the SDK, the
margin setting has no effect when docked, which appears to be true.

Any way to add a margin at all? Even some kind of skinny blank control
I can stick on the top and left that the splitview container then docks
against?

Try setting the padding of the SplitterPanel parent of the tab control.

>
Thanks,
Dave

[dave]

Ben Voigt wrote:

<da**@softwareonline.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@v45g2000cwv.googlegr oups.com...

I have a propery sheet inside of a splitview container. Unfortunately,
it stuff the first tab right up into the top left corner when docked,
which doesn't look good (I'd prefer border). According to the SDK, the
margin setting has no effect when docked, which appears to be true.

Any way to add a margin at all? Even some kind of skinny blank control
I can stick on the top and left that the splitview container then docks
against?

Try setting the padding of the SplitterPanel parent of the tab control.

Thanks,
Dave

That would be ideal, but so far as I can see, SplitContainer does not
expose a padding option (at least not in the properties view of the
designer).

[dave]

[e-mail] wrote:

Ben Voigt wrote:

<da**@softwareonline.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@v45g2000cwv.googlegr oups.com...

>I have a propery sheet inside of a splitview container. Unfortunately,
it stuff the first tab right up into the top left corner when docked,
which doesn't look good (I'd prefer border). According to the SDK, the
margin setting has no effect when docked, which appears to be true.
>
Any way to add a margin at all? Even some kind of skinny blank control
I can stick on the top and left that the splitview container then docks
against?

Try setting the padding of the SplitterPanel parent of the tab control.

>
Thanks,
Dave
>

That would be ideal, but so far as I can see, SplitContainer does not
expose a padding option (at least not in the properties view of the
designer).

Whoops... the SplitContainer doesn't, but the Panel (as you had said)
does. Thanks, this solved my problem!