SftTabs/DLL 6.5 - Tab Control

SftTabs/DLL - Tab Control

SftTabs/DLL is a DLL-based tab control for the Windows™ operating system, offering an alternative method of displaying multiple dialogs or cascading menu selections, by displaying tabs as found in a file cabinet or a notebook.

Tab Control

SftTabs/DLL offers many features; from a simple, single-row tab control to a multi-row, multi-color tab control in a notebook style.

• SftTabs/DLL Wizard
• 75 customizable tab styles
• Single or multiple tab rows
• Different color tabs
• Themes support for Windows XP and above
• Transition effects
• Background bitmaps and transparent controls
• Customizable images on each tab for regular, hot and disabled tabs using bitmaps, icons, image lists, GDI+ images, checkboxes, radiobuttons.
• Hidden tabs
• Enabled/disabled tabs
• Single or multiline tab labels
• Selectable tab label text alignment (left, right, center)
• Built-in Minimize, Restore, Close buttons
• Wizard-style dialogs
• Tabbed dialogs and tabbed windows
• Tab reordering
• Tab drag & drop
• Up to 32 rows of tabs
• Up to 256 tabs per tab control
• Multiple tab styles
• Tab colors can change based on tab status
• Fixed or variable width tabs
• Tab control with or without client area
• ToolTips
• Flyby highlighting
• Ellipses for truncated tab text
• Scrollable tabs
• User-customizable scroll button bitmaps
• Reduced menu complexity by using tab controls
• Support for C and C++ (MFC) using Visual Studio
• Support for Windows 2000 through Windows 10 and their server editions (32-bit and 64-bit applications)
• Complete implementation, not a sub/superclassed Windows control

SftTabs/DLL Wizard Application

The SftTabs/DLL Wizard allows you to design and test a tab control without any programming. Tab labels, the number of tab rows, tab colors, icon and bitmap locations are just a few of the items you can customize. Once you are satisfied with your tab control look, the SftTabs/DLL Wizard can even generate the required run-time code for C or C++ with MFC. So your programming effort is kept to a minimum.

Source Code

The source code for the MFC classes for tab control access, tabbed dialogs and tabbed windows is supplied. Any application that you develop can use SftTabs/DLL royalty-free (some restrictions apply), as long as only the DLL is shipped with your application.

Languages Supported

SftTabs/DLL supports C, C++ and other languages when using the standard SendMessage Windows API. The DLLs can be called using the definitions provided in the supplied header file. In addition, SftTabs/DLL is shipped with class definitions which support the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC).

Environments Supported

• 32-bit applications on Windows XP and Windows 2000 through Windows 10 and their server editions.
• 64-bit support when running Windows XP through Windows 10 and their server editions on 64-bit processors.

UNICODE support is available for all platforms.

The product supports the same easy to use API on all platforms.

Royalties

Any application that you develop can use SftTabs/DLL royalty-free in run-time only mode; design-time features are not available. Each user (developer) who needs access to any portion of the product must license a copy of SftTabs/DLL.