TabControl with Horizontal Scrollbar

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Have a tab control on a winForm and tabPgs are dynamically added at runtime. How do I enable or add (code) for horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of tab control once tabs reach beyond the space on my form? I know that the tab control will display/add the "scroll buttons" but I need a scrollbar.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

-DA

Posted 19-Feb-13 17:44pm

d.allen101

Updated 24-Feb-13 10:27am

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CHill60 20-Feb-13 12:02pm

I suspect that you may need to create a custom control to handle this. I've experimented by putting a tab control onto a panel that has AutoScroll set to True and increasing the size of the tab control each time I add a tab - it looks a bit messy - might have to manually "draw" the borders but it works in principle

d.allen101 20-Feb-13 15:09pm

thx will try. seems like the best option for now

CHill60 20-Feb-13 18:02pm

Have just upvoted your question because it has piqued my interest and I'm enjoying the challenge :-) I'm a *expert* googler and couldn't find a solution that way. And it's been fun trying different ways to achieve (what I think) what you're trying to achieve. If you do find a "perfect" solution think about possibly posting it as a CP article ... if I get there before you .... ;-p

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rmortega77 · Answer 1 · 2013-02-26T13:15:00

Solution 1

Workaround: Add an

C#

HScrollBar

to the form. When adding new pages set

C#

TabControl.Maximun = TabControl.TabCount

. Finally on the

C#

HScrollBar_Scroll

event, set

C#

TabControl.SelectedIndex = HScrollBar.Value

. Yours, Rodolfo.

Posted 26-Feb-13 13:15pm

rmortega77