Description

PageControl is a set of pages used to make a multiple page dialog box.

Use PageControl to create a multiple page dialog or tabbed notebook. PageControl displays multiple overlapping pages that are TabSheet objects. The user selects a page by clicking the page's tab that appears at the top of the control.


Component properties

 Property

 Description

 Style

 Specifies the style of the tab control.

 TabPosition

 Determines whether tabs appear at the top or bottom.

 Font → Color

 Specifies the font color to use when displaying the text. Starting with Windows Vista, you cannot change the font color for a pagecontrol.

 Font → Name

 Identifies the typeface of the font.

 Font → Size

 Specifies the height of the font in points.

 Font → Style

 Determines whether the font is normal, italic, underlined, bold, and so on.

 Name

 Specifies the name of the component.

 Left

 Specifies the horizontal coordinate of the left edge of a component relative to its parent.

 Top

 Specifies the Y coordinate of the upper-left corner of a control, relative to its parent or containing control in pixels.

 Width

 Specifies the horizontal size of the control in pixels.

 Height

 Specifies the vertical size of the control in pixels.

 TabOrder

 Indicates the position of the control in its parent's tab order.

 TabStop

 Determines if the user can tab to a control.

 Visible

 Specifies whether the component appears onscreen.

 Anchors

 Specifies how the control is anchored to its parent. More info.



Additional properties

 Property

 Description

 BiDiMode

 Specifies the bi-directional mode for the component.

 Constraints

 Specifies the size constraints for the component.  It makes sense when using the Anchors property.

 Cursor

 Specifies the image used to represent the mouse pointer when it passes into the region covered by the component.

 Enabled

 Controls whether the component responds to mouse and keyboard events.

 Hint

 Hint contains the text string that appears when the user moves the mouse over the component. The hint will be shown if the ShowHint property = True

 HotTrack

 Determines whether labels on the tab under the mouse are automatically highlighted.

 Multiline

 Determines whether the tabs can appear on more than one row.

 RaggedRight

 Specifies whether rows of tabs stretch to fill the width of the control.

 ScrollOpposite

 Determines how the rows of tabs are scrolled in a multi-line tab control. Makes sense if the Multiline property = True

 ShowHint

 Determines whether the control displays a Help Hint when the mouse pointer rests momentarily on the component. See also property Hint

 TabIndex

 Identifies the selected tab on a tab control.