Comments on: Creating a Tab Control for the Smartphone

By: andrew simpson

andrew simpson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:10:36 +0000

great piece of code but as some else noticed images are not displayed on ppc platforms. do you know why please?

Thanks

By: msu

msu — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:08:16 +0000

great work!

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:17:02 +0000

Hi Christopher,
this control is exact what I am looking for.
I attempt the smartphonetabcontrol.zip and try to compile it with Visual Studion 2008 and get this compile error “Could not find type ‘SmartphoneTabControl.SmartphoneTab”.
My guess is there is a file missing in the zip file or did you know what is going wrong on my VS ?

Regards
Stephan

By: Srikanth Sundaram

Srikanth Sundaram — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:50:45 +0000

hi Mr.Christopher, its a great control… Congrats… Im trying to develop a mobile user control which alllows the content of the mobile page to be viewed in a tabular fashion… It allows the user to align his controls in a tabular fashion.. Im using vs 2008 so, havin problems using designer view(no designer view)… (There is no way to display tables or datagrids in mobile web forms)… however to start with it or how to develop it i have no idea.. im a begginner… I would be grateful to you if you can guide me how to do it and give me ur valuble suggestions.. Thanking You… With Love, Srikanth Sundaram…

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:25:19 +0000

Uh, please ignore my previous post. I was being thick.
My assumption was that by calling AddTab() it would also add the control to the form itself. I am now doing that manually.

Again, thanks for your work. Not only is it useful as is, but it is terrific to see how you coded it up.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:09:20 +0000

This is a terrific control! Thank you for your work on this and making it public.

A question I have is related to adding panels to the tab control. In my scenario the application is creating panels outside of the form which hosts the tab control. The application has a series of usercontrol forms generated which each have a panel which is configured with child controls. When my app creates instantiates the form hosting the tab control it then instantiates the usercontrol, extracts the panel from it then the panel to the tab via AddTab().
When I do this the tab appears but the associated panel appears with no child controls. What am I missing here?

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:50:24 +0000

Performance problems related to calling tabControl.Clear() seem to be because calling Clear() raises the SelectIndexChanged event…

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:40:09 +0000

Have you or anyone noticed the performance of tabControl.Clear()? When clearing 8 tab pages, the Clear() method takes 3 seconds on a Window Mobile 5 device running .NET CF 2.0.

This is despite the tabControl.Clear() being nested inside tabControl.SuspendLayout() and tabControl.ResumeLayout().

By: Hitesh Harchandani

Hitesh Harchandani — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:42:50 +0000

Thanks for the immidiate reply. But out of curosity i like to know what creates a tab UI. How it automatically takes theme specific color. I observed whatever theme color i choose the tab color updated automatically.

I beleive it is there and yoiu are the best person put some light on this.

Hitesh

By: Christopher Fairbairn

Christopher Fairbairn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:00:18 +0000

Hi Hiteshi,

I am not aware of a nice and tidy solution to this off the top of my head.

You could investigate buying a third party custom control which provides this sort of functionality. A quick web search turned up http://www.pocketpccontrols.com/controls/colorTab/ for example.

Hope this helps,
Christopher Fairbairn