Ownerdraw TabControls, what's the secret?

[Jay Tautges]

Hello everyone,

Personalizing the look of controls is something I like to do - so I'm trying it with the TabControl in my program. I've set the control's DrawMode to OwnerDrawFixed, and have added a DrawItem event handler.

But in the OnDrawItem function when I simply fill the tab with a solid color, there is still a 3D edge around the tab. Is there any way to stop the base class from drawing those edges, so we can draw it ourself?

Thanks,

Jay

[stepi]

Hello,
I think the only way you get rid of those is set the control style UserPaint to true and then do the all the drawing by yourself.

[MadHatter]

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/flattabcontrol.asp

[Jay Tautges]

Thanks,

UserPaint looks like what I was missing.