ATTabs

About

ATTabs is a tab-control component for Delphi and Lazarus. It's not replacement for standard tab control, but is alternative one, it has different API. It paints tabs OS-indenendant, using custom drawing on canvas.

Screenshot:

Author: Alexey Torgashin

History

GitHub repo has the history.txt file which lists all major changes.

Requirements

• Lazarus: 1.8+.
• Tested on: Windows, Linux GTK2/Qt, macOS.

How to use it like TPageControl

Make some new panel, which will be like TPageControl. Place ATTabs on it, make Align=alTop. Now you create several Forms or Frames onto this panel (they have Parent:=Panel1; Align:=alClient;). How to switch these frames on changing tabs?

• Add tabs OnChange event handler.
• In this event handler: a) hide all frames, b) show frame, which is assigned to current TabIndex.

When you create a new tab, you can set its TabObject property. Set TabObject to a frame. When OnChange is called, get TabIndex, call GetTabData() for this index, and read TabObject for this tab. Show the frame, which is stored in this TabObject, hide all others.

  var
    d: TATTabData;
  begin
    d:= t.GetTabData(t.TabIndex);
    if Assigned(d) then
      (d.TabObject as TMyFrame).Show;
  end;

License

License: MPL 2.0. Also you can use it under LGPL.

Download

ATTabs is merged into ATFlatControls repo: https://github.com/Alexey-T/ATFlatControls/ . Some wiki documentation is in the "wiki" subfolder of that repo.

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "ATTabs", as it stood on 2021-03-26 after a change by Alextpp, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.