by David VanHook (2 Submissions)
Category: Complete Applications
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(7 Votes)
This is a tabstrip project. By using an array, you can decide which tab container should be shown. Whatever you want to show when that tab is clicked goes into a container. I searched for months trying to learn about tabstrips and I hope this code helps someone else out.
Assumes
In order to use the tabstrip control you must make
each tab a seperate container. For four tabs, you
need four containers. By using a control array, you
scroll through the containers depending on which
tab you have selected. For this project I used picture
boxes as the containers. In the form load procedure, the
containers are made hidden so that only the one selected
is visible. Also, the border is set to zero at form load.
This is because when you're working on the containers,
it's easier if you can see the border. At run time,
you don't need the container to show, only the items
you put into the container.
VBcodersFor this project you will need:
1 Form - People
1 Command button - cmdexit
1 TabStrip - TabStrip1 (default)
Place 4 tabs onto the tabstrip
4 Pictureboxes (in an array)
A) Picture1(1)
B) Picture1(2)
C) Picture1(3)
D) Picture1(4)
Const Numtabs = 4 'Set the number of tabs
Dim x as Integer
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Private Sub cmdexit_Click()
Unload People
End Sub
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Private Sub Form_Load()
On Error Resume Next
People.Height = 3375 'Set the size of your form
People.Width = 4900
For x = 1 To Numtabs 'Loop through the tabs
With Picture1(x)
.BorderStyle = 0
.Left = TabStrip1.ClientLeft
.Top = TabStrip1.ClientTop
.Width = TabStrip1.ClientWidth
.Height = TabStrip1.ClientHeight
.Visible = False
End With
Next x
TabStrip1.Tabs(1).Selected = True 'Form loads with first tab selected
Picture1(TabStrip1.SelectedItem.Index).Visible = True 'Show first container
End Sub
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Private Sub TabStrip1_Click()
'This procedure determines which tab is selected
'and what tab container should be shown
Static PrevTab As Integer
PrevTab = Switch(PrevTab = 0, 1, PrevTab >= 1 And PrevTab <= Numtabs, PrevTab)
Picture1(PrevTab).Visible = False
Picture1(TabStrip1.SelectedItem.Index).Visible = True
Picture1(TabStrip1.SelectedItem.Index).Refresh
PrevTab = TabStrip1.SelectedItem.Index
End Sub
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