Upgrading To SftTabs/NET 6.0

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SftTabs/NET 5.x

SftTabs/NET 6.0 Equivalent Feature

Tab styles with automatic vertical text alignment (Style property) will not automatically show vertical text after conversion.

In order to achieve the same vertical text orientation, use the Angle property (90 or 270 degrees) for each tab's text component.

Access the property pages, click on "Tabs", select the desired tab in the "List of Tabs", then click the "Edit Selected Tab..." button. This allows you to select each "part" on the tab and fine-tune its properties. On the right hand side, click on the TextPartClass part. Below (in the "Currently Selected Parts Properties") look for the Angle property and change it as desired, then click Close, followed by Apply.

Repeat for all desired tabs.

Transparency for images based on bitmaps has been discontinued.

If image transparency is desired, images based on GIF or PNG files should be used instead, allowing for transparent and translucent images (with alpha channel).

ScrollButtonStyle.Scroll has been dropped.

The new, equivalent ScrollButtonStyle.Themed should be used instead.

The current tab is no longer saved (Current property).

After converting forms to 6.0, the initially selected tab must be defined using the InitialTab property, which defaults to -1.

The Tab type should no longer be used.

Use the equivalent TabClass type instead.

The TabClass no longer offers a public constructor. Instead, the Add or Insert methods should be used to obtain a TabClass instance.

The TabCollection type should no longer be used.

Use the equivalent TabCollectionClass type instead.

The Scrolling type should no longer be used.

Use the equivalent ScrollingClass type instead.