HOWTO: Displaying Graphic on Each Tab of SSTab at Runtime

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a

SUMMARY

This article explains how you can display a graphic on each tab of a SSTab ActiveX control at run time.

MORE INFORMATION

The SSTab control is an ActiveX control that ships with Visual FoxPro 5.x. The SSTab control provides a group of tabs, each of which acts as a container for other controls.

The steps below demonstrate how to create an example of one of these controls:

1. Create a form.

2. Add the SSTab ActiveX control to the form. By default, SSTab always has three pages.

3. Change the name of the control from Olecontrol1 to SStab1.

4. Add a Command button to the form and change the Caption property to "Set Picture."

5. In the Click method of the Command button, put in the following code:

         FOR cPage = 0 to 2
              THISFORM.SSTab1.Object.Tab = cPage   &&select the current page
              THISFORM.SSTab1.Object.Picture = ;
                  LoadPicture(home()+"samples\graphics\bmps\outline\leaf.bmp")
         ENDFOR
         THISFORM.SSTab1.Object.Tab = 0
   
   

6. Save and run the form.

Note: Remember, the tab in SSTab ActiveX control always begins with 0.

The Picture property of the SSTab control requires an object reference, and the LoadPicture function returns an object reference to the graphic file.