Organize crowded dialogs and deep menus into clean, familiar tabs your users grasp at a glance. SftTabs/DLL 7.0 gives Windows developers 75 customizable styles, built-in accessibility, and royalty-free deployment — designed visually, coded in minutes.
Every application eventually runs out of room. Dialogs grow crowded, menus cascade three levels deep, and users start hunting for the setting they know is in there somewhere. SftTabs/DLL solves that the way the physical world always has, with tabs.
Like the dividers in a file cabinet or the labeled sections of a notebook, it organizes multiple dialogs, panels and menu selections into clean, familiar layouts your users understand at a glance. Complexity goes down; usability goes up.
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Start with any of 75 customizable tab styles, then make them your own: solid or gradient fills, per-tab colors that change automatically with a tab's status, and fixed or variable widths.
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Put images on every tab, for regular, hot and disabled states alike, and dress the control with background bitmaps, transparent surfaces and smooth transition effects.
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Drag-and-drop reordering, hidden and disabled tabs, optional close buttons on individual tabs, and built-in Minimize, Restore and Close buttons.
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Labels span single or multiple lines, align left, right or center, carry keyboard mnemonics for fast access, and truncate gracefully with ellipses when space is tight.
A modern Windows citizen
Version 7.0 follows the system's choices, so your tabs do too.
Tracks the "Choose your mode" setting for seamless dark mode.
Honors Windows High Contrast themes for accessible viewing.
Keeps your tabs crisp on every display in every configuration.
A built-in UI Automation provider with live-region announcements works with Narrator, NVDA and JAWS out of the box.
SftTabs/DLL Wizard
Set your tab labels, choose the number of rows, pick colors, place icons and bitmaps and see the result immediately. Once the look is exactly right, the Wizard generates the run-time code for C or C++ with MFC.
Languages
SendMessage and the supplied headerPlatforms
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Distribution
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SftButton/DLL 3.0, SftMask/DLL 7.0, SftTabs/DLL 7.0 and SftTree/DLL 8.0 in one hugely discounted bundle.
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