On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Paul Rodman <paul@ilanga.com> wrote:
> This is a question for the RS programmers, I'm guessing.
>
> Is the TabPanel control a primitive OS control or one that the RB framework
> "constructs"? I ask this because when I use the various Windows calls to
> colour parts of the UI, the one part that does not conform to the colouring
> is the Tabpanel control. I write astronomy applications, and to preserve
> night vision it is convenient to colour the UI in shades of (say) dark red.
> However, the Tabpanel problem makes this impossible.
>
Yes it's a native control on all platforms. How are your "colouring" the
UI? For the tabpanel, you can float a canvas on each tab and place your
controls on the canvas. This is essentially what .NET does to support
tabpanel background color.
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