SftTabs/DLL offers easy to use tab controls for 32-bit and 64-bit applications on Windows 2000 through 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
• SftTabs/DLL Wizard
• 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 XP through Windows 10 and their server editions (32-bit and 64-bit applications)
• Complete implementation, not a sub/superclassed Windows control

Details

SftTabs/DLL is written in C. About 40 MB of disk space are needed to install the developer version of SftTabs/DLL.  The DLL is just 800KB (32-bit) and 1.2MB (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.