A Tab Control/Component by Softel vdm, Inc.

SftTabs/ATL V5.0

SftTabs/ATL 5.0 is an ActiveX tab control for Visual Basic 6.0 with 66 tab styles and many advanced features. It offers excellent performance and lots of features that you won't find in any other tab control. Need more power for your tab controls? SftTabs/ATL can implement tabbed forms, Wizard style forms and you can even use it as a simple tab strip.

SftTabs/ATL supports Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0. It is implemented using dual interfaces, resulting in excellent performance, yet, the control is small and doesn't require any additional DLLs (no MFC or other run-time DLLs).

• Easy to use at design-time! Add controls to each tab page at design time. No need for messy run-time code to hide, show and disable controls.


• Controls can be shared between tab pages


• Many tab styles


• Windows XP support including themes


• Tab controls with or without client area


• Extensive support for scrollable tabs, including button colors and graphics, button positioning, conditional buttons and more


• OLE Drag & Drop support


• Visible and hidden tabs


• Enabled and disabled tabs


• Single or multiple tab rows


• Definable indentation for multi-row tabs


• Left/right margins for tab rows


• Different color tabs and client area


• Fully customizable icon or bitmap on each tab


• Multi-line tab labels


• Fixed or variable width tabs


• Selectable tab label graphic, text alignment and positioning


• Tab colors can change based on tab status


• ”Wizard”-style dialogs


• ToolTips


• Flyby highlighting


• UNICODE support (Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003)

Technical Information

Component Type - Contains the following types of components...

• ActiveX Custom Control (OCX)  • ActiveX Component (in process, DLL)

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