25.10.2026, 18:29
(This post was last modified: 25.10.2026, 19:23 by Jules Marchildon.)
Hey Walt, Thanks for testing it out.
Double clicking on the client (open space) should bring up my placeholder dialog for the Forms Properties, while double clicking on a control brings up the placeholder dialog for the Control Properties. You can also right click on the Form or Control for the context menu. This designer includes the ability to select a tab and place controls on them. And yes I find it extremely tricky and I'm way over my head at this point, but in this version I have started it... you didn't notice you can do that? I guess it's not as intuitive as I thought - Ops!
The next version will not allow nested Tab controls.
I know from experience creating QTAB (Quick Visual Tab Designer) back in 2003, the longest part of that journey was coding the properties dialog. QTAB allows you to draw directly on the tab control incase you never heard of it. It was done with PBWIN7, I have not updated it to PBWIN10 and probably wont since I'm working on this new one. Here is a link to the source code and the binary located in the release zip.
https://web.archive.org/web/201205142148.../QTab2.zip
Updated the test binary, you can now add one Toolbar and Statusbar control per form. The tab control min width is enforced until I can figure out how to add the extra custom paint handler for the client area when the arrow buttons are activated (see Börje attached image).
dmsEngine.zip (Size: 104.46 KB / Downloads: 3)
Double clicking on the client (open space) should bring up my placeholder dialog for the Forms Properties, while double clicking on a control brings up the placeholder dialog for the Control Properties. You can also right click on the Form or Control for the context menu. This designer includes the ability to select a tab and place controls on them. And yes I find it extremely tricky and I'm way over my head at this point, but in this version I have started it... you didn't notice you can do that? I guess it's not as intuitive as I thought - Ops!
The next version will not allow nested Tab controls. I know from experience creating QTAB (Quick Visual Tab Designer) back in 2003, the longest part of that journey was coding the properties dialog. QTAB allows you to draw directly on the tab control incase you never heard of it. It was done with PBWIN7, I have not updated it to PBWIN10 and probably wont since I'm working on this new one. Here is a link to the source code and the binary located in the release zip.
https://web.archive.org/web/201205142148.../QTab2.zip
Updated the test binary, you can now add one Toolbar and Statusbar control per form. The tab control min width is enforced until I can figure out how to add the extra custom paint handler for the client area when the arrow buttons are activated (see Börje attached image).
dmsEngine.zip (Size: 104.46 KB / Downloads: 3)