A Tab Control/Component by Softel vdm, Inc.

SftTabs/DLL is a DLL-based tab control for the Windows operating system for C and C++ application. Some of SftTabs/DLL's features include the following:

• 60 tab styles


• Tab Design Wizard Application


• Add tabs to any type of window, and of course dialogs too


• Single or multiple tab rows


• Enabled/disabled tabs


• Hidden tabs


• Different color tabs


• Themes support for Windows XP - Our products don't just run on Windows XP, they exploit Windows XP!


• Transition effects


• Background bitmaps and transparent controls


• Icons or bitmaps on each tab


• Single or multi-line tab labels


• Selectable tab label text alignment (left, right, center)


• Owner-draw tabs


• "Wizard"-style dialogs


• Tabbed dialogs and tabbed windows


• Up to 16 rows of tabs


• Up to 128 tabs per tab control


• Tab colors can change based on tab status


• ToolTips (fading/scrolling on Windows 98/2000/XP/Server 2003).


• Flyby highlighting - as the mouse cursor moves over a tab, the tab text is underlined and displayed using a different text color.


• Tab colors can change based on tab status


• Fixed or variable width tabs


• Tab control with or without client area


• Scrollable tabs


• Conditional scroll buttons


• User-customizable scroll button bitmaps


• All icons/bitmaps fully customizable


• C API


• C++ classes for MFC


• Callable DLL written in C


• Same API for Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003


• UNICODE support across all platforms

SftTabs/DLL is written in C. About 11 MB of disk space are needed to install the developer version of SftTabs/DLL. The DLL is just 450KB (32-bit DLL) or 1.4MB (64-bit DLL). There are no additional run-time DLLs needed (no MFC DLLs). Of course, the DLL files included in SftTabs/DLL can be redistributed royalty-free with your application.