SftTabs/DLL is a DLL-based tab control for the WindowsÔ operating system, offering an alternative method of displaying multiple dialogs or cascading menu selections, by displaying tabs as found in a file cabinet or a notebook.

Tab Control

SftTabs/DLL offers many features; from a simple, single-row tab control to a multi-row, multi-color tab control in a notebook style.

• SftTabs/DLL Wizard

• 75 customizable tab styles

• Single or multiple tab rows

• Different color tabs

• Themes support for Windows XP and above

• Transition effects

• Background bitmaps and transparent controls

• Customizable images on each tab for regular, hot and disabled tabs using bitmaps, icons, image lists, GDI+ images, checkboxes, radiobuttons.

• Hidden tabs

• Enabled/disabled tabs

• Single or multiline tab labels

• Selectable tab label text alignment (left, right, center)

• Built-in Minimize, Restore, Close buttons

• Wizard-style dialogs

• Tabbed dialogs and tabbed windows

• Up to 16 rows of tabs

• Up to 128 tabs per tab control

• Multiple tab styles

• Tab colors can change based on tab status

• Fixed or variable width tabs

• Tab control with or without client area

• ToolTips

• Flyby highlighting

• Ellipses for truncated tab text

• Scrollable tabs

• User-customizable scroll button bitmaps

• Reduced menu complexity by using tab controls

• Support for C and C++ (MFC) using Visual C++

• Support for Windows 98 through Windows Server 2008, 32-bit and 64-bit processors and Windows Mobile platforms with Pocket PC 2002/2003, SmartPhone 2002/2003, Windows CE, Windows CE .NET, Windows Mobile 5 and 6

• Complete implementation, not a sub/superclassed Windows control

SftTabs/DLL Wizard Application

The SftTabs/DLL Wizard allows you to design and test a tab control without any programming. Tab labels, the number of tab rows, tab colors, icon and bitmap locations are just a few of the items you can customize. Once you are satisfied with your tab control look, the SftTabs/DLL Wizard can even generate the required run-time code for C or C++ with MFC. So your programming effort is kept to a minimum.

Source Code

The source code for the MFC classes for tab control access, tabbed dialogs and tabbed windows is supplied. Any application that you develop can use SftTabs/DLL royalty-free (some restrictions apply), as long as only the DLL is shipped with your application.

Languages Supported

SftTabs/DLL supports C, C++ and other languages when using the standard SendMessage Windows API. The DLLs can be called using the definitions provided in the supplied header file. In addition, SftTabs/DLL is shipped with class definitions which support the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC).

Environments Supported

Processor support depends on the installed and purchased product versions.

• 32-bit applications on Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008

• 64-bit support when running Windows XP x64, Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows Vista x64, Windows Server 2008 x64 with AMD 64-bit processors or Intel 64-bit processors

• Windows Mobile platforms (including Windows CE, Pocket PC, SmartPhone, etc.) - with the separately purchased SftTabs/DLL 6.0 Windows Mobile Edition

UNICODE support is available for all platforms. 

The product supports the same easy to use API on all platforms.

Royalties

Any application that you develop can use SftTabs/DLL royalty-free in run-time only mode; design-time features are not available. Each user (developer) who needs access to any portion of the product must license a copy of SftTabs/DLL.