change tab control bg color

[hazzem elrefai]

how to change the tab contol background color? thnx in advance

[Heath Stewart]

You'll have to handle painting yourself since TabControl.BackColor always returns SystemColors.Control. You'll have to extend TabControl with your own class and override OnPaint to do so. There should be several articles here on CP ( I knew of a good one, but the bastard went commercial and pulled all his articles off CP after he got all our free help and beta testing! :mad: ) Why is this so hard? Because almost every control in System.Windows.Forms is just a wrapper for its Windows Common Controls equivalent where such details are often abstracted or don't fit the .NET pattern at all times. It is possible, though. I used a similar approach to override the painting for the actual TagPages in order to make them use the Theme API (for Visual Styles) correctly (they don't by default). [EDIT] Note: this is only for the TabControl itself. To paint the TabPages, see the next message I posted (memory slipped!). [/EDIT]

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[Heath Stewart]

You can set the TabControl.DrawMode to TabDrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed and 1) handle the TabControl.DrawItem event if handling the painting from another control, or 2) override the TabControl.OnDrawItem if extending the TabControl with your own class (faster than handling the event inside a derivitive class). [EDIT] Note: this is only for the TabPages. See the previous message about the TabControl itself. [/EDIT]

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