SftTabs/OCX 6.0 - ActiveX Tab Control	Softel vdm, Inc.

SftTabs/OCX is an ActiveX control for Visual Basic 6 and the Windows™ 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. For environments other than Visual Basic 6 please see our products SftTabs/NET and SftTabs/DLL instead.

Tab Control

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

• Support for Visual Basic 6.0

• 75 tab styles, which can be further customized

• Hidden tabs

• Windows themes support (Windows XP and up)

• Single or multiple tab rows

• Different color tabs

• Background bitmaps

• Images on each tab

• Enabled/disabled tabs

• Single or multi-line tab text

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

• Wizard style dialogs

• Up to 16 rows of tabs

• Up to 128 tabs per tab control

• Tab colors can change based on tab status

• Fixed width or variable width tabs

• Tab control with or without client area

• ToolTips for tabs, scroll buttons, Close button, Minimize button and Restore button

• Flyby highlighting

• Extensive support for scrollable tabs

• Conditional scroll buttons

• User-customizable button graphics

• Optional Close button, Minimize button and Restore button

• Conditional tab labels

• Dual interfaces throughout for optimum performance

• ATL based control, no MFC DLLs or other DLLs required

• Reduced menu complexity by using tab controls

Royalties

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

Source Code

The source code for the control and property pages (written in Microsoft Visual C++ using the ATL framework) is optionally available under our Enterprise Licensing program. Any application that you develop can use SftTabs/OCX royalty-free (some restrictions apply), as long as only the redistributable files are shipped with your application.

Languages Supported

SftTabs/OCX supports Visual Basic 6.0 only. Even though it is an ActiveX control which conforms to the latest standards, it cannot be used with other control containers (such as Visual C++, Delphi, etc.) as these do not offer the required interfaces that our product requires for containment of controls within the tab control. It is possible to use the tab control without control containment in many other environments, however we only support this product when used with Visual Basic 6.0.

For environments other than Visual Basic 6 please see our products SftTabs/NET and SftTabs/DLL instead.

Environments Supported

SftTabs/OCX supports Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server using the same set of properties, events and methods.

UNICODE support and DBCS character support is available on all supported platforms.