tabcontrol - cannot disable or hide tab pages

[ASGMikeG]

Hi,
I'm upgrading an application from VB6 to .NET. It used tab controls in VB6
to achieve a tab dialogue / wizard type effect - navigating from one tab to
the next as the user filled in information.

When this has upgraded to .NET the user can suddenly click on the other tabs
without having completed the previous tabs i.e. the other tabs are not
disabled - only the controls on them are.

How do I disable and/or hide a tab page so that the user cannot navigate to
them by clicking on the tab ?

Regards
Michael

[Greg Burns]

You can't hide a tab anymore. You have to remove it from the tabpages
collection and readd it later. Real PITA.

http://www.ftponline.com/vsm/2004_09...a/default.aspx

May I suggest a much better way...

http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Produ...d/Default.aspx

Greg
What you have to do is
"ASGMikeG" <AS******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
I'm upgrading an application from VB6 to .NET. It used tab controls in
VB6
to achieve a tab dialogue / wizard type effect - navigating from one tab
to
the next as the user filled in information.

When this has upgraded to .NET the user can suddenly click on the other
tabs
without having completed the previous tabs i.e. the other tabs are not
disabled - only the controls on them are.

How do I disable and/or hide a tab page so that the user cannot navigate
to
them by clicking on the tab ?

Regards
Michael

[Mick Doherty]

TabControlEX allows you to disable tabs:
http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/controls.html

....but it sounds like you should be using a Wizard Control:
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/SampleWizard.asp

or maybe a Tabless TabControl plus Next and Previous Buttons:
http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/custom.html --> Create a PanelManager
(this class has designtime problems in VS2005).

--
Mick Doherty
http://dotnetrix.co.uk/nothing.html
"ASGMikeG" <AS******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4E**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi,
I'm upgrading an application from VB6 to .NET. It used tab controls in
VB6
to achieve a tab dialogue / wizard type effect - navigating from one tab
to
the next as the user filled in information.

When this has upgraded to .NET the user can suddenly click on the other
tabs
without having completed the previous tabs i.e. the other tabs are not
disabled - only the controls on them are.

How do I disable and/or hide a tab page so that the user cannot navigate
to
them by clicking on the tab ?

Regards
Michael

[owslachief]

I created a copy of both the tab control and it's child tab pages collection. I removed the last two pages (the ones I wanted to "hide") from the collection, removed the original tab control, and added the new tab control with the "mini" version.


Dim MiniTab As System.Windows.Forms.TabControl
MiniTab = tabBenefits
Dim colTabs As New
System.Windows.Forms.TabControl.TabPageCollection( MiniTab)
colTabs = MiniTab.TabPages
colTabs.Remove(MiniTab.TabPages(MiniTab.TabPages.C ount - 1))
colTabs.Remove(MiniTab.TabPages(MiniTab.TabPages.C ount - 1))
Controls.Remove(tabBenefits)
Controls.Add(MiniTab)