Question

I’m looking for solution for my problem. I want to change location for tabcontrol’s TabButtons or add control assigned to tabpage but outside TabControl. TabPages are added dynamically. Example:

Form1___________ _ [] X

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Some TabPage content

Tab1 | Tab2 | Tab3 | < >

TextBox assigned to Tab's
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So if I change tabs by clicking on Tab1,Tab2,Tab3 TabPage + TextBox content should change depending on Tab. The first idea was to put TabButtons on bottom and add ArrayList what contains TextBox content, catch TabControl change tab event and change TextBox content, but there was an issue with editing and adding that content. In few words: I wan’t to put TabButtons between 2 controls(for example between two textboxes).Do you have any ideas?

Answer 1

If I understand what you’re asking for… You want when you click on a tab, it controls two different things? Like two different text boxes?
If that is true, you should be able to do it like this.

foreach (thing in your ArrayList)
{
     TabPage tabPage = new TabPage("Name of tab");            // Add a new tab page
     RichTextBox rtb = new System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox();//RTF box
     TextBox tb = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();         //Text box

     //Set up size, position and properties
     rtb.LoadFile("some/Path/to/a/file");

     //set up size, position of properties
     tb.Text = "Some text I want to display";

     tabPage.Controls.Add(rtb); //Add both boxes to that tab
     tabPage.Controls.Add(tb);

     tabControl1.TabPages.Add(tabPage); //Add that page to the tab control
}

Only thing you should have to mess around with is the layout. And make sure to have the tabControl added with the designer.