SftTabs/DLL offers easy to use tab controls for 32-bit and 64-bit applications on Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10, along with all server editions. Many tab styles are available, from simple single-row tab control to multi-row dual-sided and notebook-style tab control.

Features

SftTabs/DLL is a DLL-based tab control for the Windows operating system for C and C++ application. Some of SftTabs/DLL's features include the following:

• 75 tab styles
• Tab Design Wizard Application
• Add tabs to any type of window, and of course dialogs too
• Single or multiple tab rows
• Enabled/disabled tabs
• Hidden tabs
• Different color tabs (including gradient fill)
• Themes support for Windows XP through Windows 10
• Built-in scroll buttons, Minimize, Restore and Close buttons
• Transition effects
• Background bitmaps and transparent controls
• Icons or bitmaps on each tab
• Single or multi-line tab labels
• Selectable tab label text alignment (left, right, center)
• Owner-draw tabs
• "Wizard"-style dialogs
• Tabbed dialogs and tabbed windows
• Up to 16 rows of tabs
• Up to 128 tabs per tab control 
• Tab colors can change based on tab status
• ToolTips
• Flyby highlighting - as the mouse cursor moves over a tab, the tab text is underlined and displayed using a different text color
• Tab colors can change based on tab status
• Fixed or variable width tabs
• Tab control with or without client area
• Scrollable tabs
• Conditional scroll buttons
• User-customizable scroll button bitmaps
• All icons/bitmaps fully customizable
• C API
• C++ classes for MFC
• Callable DLL written in C
• Optional static linking eliminating the DLL
• Same API for Windows 98 through Windows 10, 32-bit and 64-bit applications
• UNICODE support across all platforms

Screen Shots

Here are a few screen shots (from our demo).

Details

SftTabs/DLL is written in C. About 20 MB of disk space are needed to install the developer version of SftTabs/DLL.  The DLL is just 750KB (32-bit) and 1.1MB (x64).  There are no additional run-time DLLs needed (no MFC DLLs). Of course, the DLL files included in SftTabs/DLL can be redistributed royalty-free with your application.