[c#] tabcontrol, change the color to whole tabcontrol

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I have sent an app to my colleagues and they have win7, stlye in win is set to aero stlyle. They see all tabpage-s white even though I see in gray, color is by default "Control".
If i try this code:

tabControl3.TabPages[0].BackColor = Color.Green;

i get the tabpage green, but the "tab" above (where the text is for the tabpage) is stil grey.

Hot to make the whole tabcontrol in diferent color. In Properties window you can only change color to a tabpage but not to a whole tabcontrol.

Posted 2-Dec-12 12:08pm

marcel zol

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Dec-12 20:37pm

What's wrong with tabControl.BackColor?
And do yourself a favor: get rid of all names like "tabControl13". Never use auto-generated names -- they violate (good) Microsoft naming conventions/recommendations. Always rename them all to give them semantic names.
--SA

Simon_Whale 3-Dec-12 4:11am

That changes the color of the tabpage but not the actual tab which the OP is after, I know that this is a custom draw event on the control

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Dec-12 5:24am

How about changing both? Each tab — dynamically...
—SA

Simon_Whale 3-Dec-12 5:33am

you have to override the drawitem event in the tabcontrol to deal with the actual tab and do the changing of the colour of the tabpage with the usual tabpage.backcolor = color.black etc.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Dec-12 12:46pm

Well, agree...
--SA

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Simon_Whale · Answer 1 · 2012-12-02T22:11:00

Solution 2

I would have a read of this Codeproject article is shows how to change the colour of the tabs.

A .NET Flat TabControl (CustomDraw)[^]

Posted 2-Dec-12 22:11pm

Simon_Whale

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Dec-12 12:47pm

Pretty good response, a 5.
--SA

Simon_Whale 3-Dec-12 14:37pm

Thanks SA

Krunal Rohit · Answer 2 · 2012-12-02T17:45:00

I'm agreed with Mr SA.. Don't use this kind of names for controls..
and your answer is here:

private void ChangeTabColor(DrawItemEventArgs e)
{
Font TabFont;
Brush BackBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Green); //Set background color
Brush ForeBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Yellow);//Set foreground color
if (e.Index == this.tabControl1.SelectedIndex)
{
TabFont = new Font(e.Font, FontStyle.Italic FontStyle.Bold);
}
else
{
TabFont = e.Font;
}
string TabName = this.tabControl1.TabPages[e.Index].Text;
StringFormat sf = new StringFormat();
sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center;
e.Graphics.FillRectangle(BackBrush, e.Bounds);
Rectangle r = e.Bounds;
r = new Rectangle(r.X, r.Y + 3, r.Width, r.Height - 3);
e.Graphics.DrawString(TabName, TabFont, ForeBrush, r, sf);
//Dispose objects
sf.Dispose();
if (e.Index == this.tabControl1.SelectedIndex)
{
TabFont.Dispose();
BackBrush.Dispose();
}
else
{
BackBrush.Dispose();
ForeBrush.Dispose();
}
}

and here all about TabControl is given :
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/mahesh/c-sharp-tabcontrol/[^]