FarPoint Tab Pro Features

FarPoint Tab Pro

FarPoint Tab Pro Features

FarPoint Tab Pro for visual interface designers consists of two controls, the Tab control and the Imprint control. It includes a VBX, 16- and 32-bit OCXs, and 16- and 32-bit DLLS that you can use to build familiar tab and notebook formats in most Windows development environments.

FarPoint Tab Pro System Requirements

Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT
3 MB of hard disk space
3.5" diskette drive
Visual Basic 2.0 or later, Visual C++ 1.5 or later, or other development environments that fully support VBXs, OCXs, or DLLs.

FarPoint Tab Pro Features

Documentation includes 164 page User's Guide, 288 page Reference Guide, online help files, samples, and quick reference card. Chapter 4 Tab Control How-to Guide in the User's Guide is 53 pages long. Chapter 7 Imprint Control How-to Guide is 14 pages.

Both controls can be bound to databases using Visual Basic's data control.

FarPoint Tab Pro General

Choose from seven pre-defined appearance styles.

Define the number of tabs per row and the number of rows of tabs Specify one and two page book modes.

Create a book chapter effect by assigning multiple pages to one tab.

Set the header width by allowing the text in the headers to wrap to multiple lines or by allowing the text to fit on one line.

Position tab headers on the top, bottom, left or right side.

Bind the tab captions to a database to display field names.

Allow scrolling of non-visible tabs.

Automatically size the tab or imprint control to its parent object in Visual Basic.

FarPoint Tab Pro Custom Appearance:

Customize the look and feel of the tab with 35 book style properties.

Specify one and two page book modes.

Customize the tab's 3-D appearance by specifying the width and/or color of the inner and outer borders.

Choose a header corner shape (chamfered, slanted, squared, or rounded).

Define the amount of separation between the tab headers.

Insert and align pictures on the tab headers.

Rotate header text in 90-degree increments.

Offset the position of rows.

FarPoint Tab Pro - Tab Control:

Easy to use design interface which lets you choose from index cards, file folders, or notebook formats. Place file and notebook tabs on the top, bottom, right, or left side of each tab control. Display the tabs as rounded, chamfered (beveled), slanted, or squared. You have complete control over the text alignment, rotation, and font used for each caption. In addition, include graphics for each tab header. Set properties individually for each tab, for the active tab, or globally for the entire control.

Can be designed to look and act like a one or two page notebook with book bindings that you can customize. Add corner guards, change the size, color and type of rings, the crease, the spine and the style of book cover.

There are 8 predefined AutoStyles: a traditional file folder, property pages, notecards, worksheets, a personal organizer, notched AutoStyle, and notebook.

You can add pages to tabs and use page earmarks to indicate that additional pages are available. You can also specify whether to display animation that shows pages and tab turning and change the speed of the animation. The Tab control can present multiple tabs in rows, change tab text and color for each tab, and change how users interact with the tabs and rows.

With Visual Basic, you can change the ActiveTab during design time and add child controls to a Tab control by placing them in the client area. You can also add a control to every tab, and it will display in the same place on each tab.

Set the Tab control properties of AutoSize and set the Auto Size Children for the child controls, and your tab control will resize itself and child controls automatically.

Lets users preview the controls on each tab at run time by holding down the left mouse button and dragging the mouse pointer across the tab headers.

Use the Balloon Control from ButtonMaker to display balloon tips for individual tabs instead of the same text for all tabs.

FarPoint Tab Pro Imprint Control:

Provides an easy way to group and highlight information within your interface. A common use is to surround related choices, or a group box.

Displays 3-D frames and borders and provides text manipulation options. Change colors and highlights, add lines or 3-D text, or display text within any side of the border of the control.

You can also use it to display multiple rows and columns for a grid-like appearance.

Set the AutoSize property to have the control automatically change its size to fit its parent container.