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4-Jan-08 2:00

Hi all,

I'm trying to bring one of the tab pages to the fore ground when a user would right click on it. And as silly as this sounds, but I'm struggling. I have tried the following without success.

tabControlMain.TabPages[tabControlMain.SelectedIndex].Show();

Thanks in advance
Regards,

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originSH4-Jan-08 2:35

4-Jan-08 2:35

Your looking for the SelectTab[^] method on the tab control itself Wink | ;)

i.e.

this.tabControl1.SelectTab(this.tabPage1);

Programm3r4-Jan-08 2:47

4-Jan-08 2:47

Hi,

Thank you for the response and the code snippet, but the actually problem is how does one access the tabpage with the right mouse button(click)?? I did have a look at that specific method, but how can I implement it when I don't have the correctly seleted tabpage. (Cause the right mouse button does not select the tabpage)

Thanks again.
Smile | :)

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originSH4-Jan-08 2:56

4-Jan-08 2:56

ahhhh I get ya,

private void tabControl1_MouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Right)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < this.tabControl1.TabCount; i++)
        {
            Rectangle tabArea = tabControl1.GetTabRect(i);

            if (tabArea.Contains(e.Location))
            {
                //AJ: Tab Richt Clicked
            }
        }
    }
}

Programm3r4-Jan-08 3:11

4-Jan-08 3:11

You are the man, that will work perfectly .... but the only thing the event does not fire when I right click on the tabpage and I have no idea why.
P.S. my mouse is working Smile | :)

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originSH4-Jan-08 3:18

4-Jan-08 3:18

thats odd :/

try the other mouse events ... down and up.

Programm3r4-Jan-08 3:30

4-Jan-08 3:30

tabControlMain_MouseDown works like a charm. Once again thank you very much.
Jig | [Dance]

Regards,

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originSH4-Jan-08 4:02

4-Jan-08 4:02

no probs

Volker Weichert4-Jan-08 2:38

Volker Weichert

4-Jan-08 2:38

Hi,

I am guessing here but if the user uses the right mouse button the tab page would not be selected. You have to get the index of the clicked tab page.

Volker Weichert

Programm3r4-Jan-08 2:44

4-Jan-08 2:44

Yes you are correct. This is actually the main problem I'm having, so ... how does one access the tabpage when the right mouse button was click?? How would one make use of the tab index, cause any tabpageb could be selected at any moment ....

Thanks for the response.

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originSH4-Jan-08 2:46

4-Jan-08 2:46

If you check out the link in my above post you'll see the SelectTab method takes an index.

Programm3r4-Jan-08 2:52

4-Jan-08 2:52

I know the method takes an index as an argument, but it would be the incorrect agrument, seeing that the right mouse button does not select the tabpage, thus using tabControlMain.SelectTab(tabControlMain.SelectedIndex); would yield the incorrect tab.

Not so ? Confused | :confused:

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Volker Weichert4-Jan-08 3:26

Volker Weichert

4-Jan-08 3:26

You might want to try something like this in your event handler:

Point p;
if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Right)
   p = new Point(e.X, e.Y);
   for (int i = 0; i < tabControl1.TabCount; i++)
   {
      if (tabControl1.GetTabRect(i).Contains(p))
         tabControl1.SelectTab(i);
   }
}

Volker Weichert

Programm3r4-Jan-08 3:53