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RadTabbedForm is internally working with a tabbed form control which is interacting with the tabs. Most of the functionality of the form is defined and exposed by the RadTabbedFormControl.

RadTabbedForm

Properties

Property Description
AllowAero Gets or sets a boolean value that determines whether the Windows title bar styles are enabled.
FormElement Gets the main element of the RadTabbedForm.
TabbedFormControl Gets the RadTabbedFormControl which is used internally by the form responsible for working with the tabs.

Events

Event Description
TabbedFormControlCreating Raised while creating the RadTabbedFormControl. The event is raised only when the form is created at run-time.

RadTabbedFormControl

Properties

Property Description
SelectedTab Gets or sets the RadTabbedFormControlTab instance that is currently selected.
Tabs Gets the collection of tabs for this view.
CausesValidation Gets or sets a flag indicating whether the control causes validation
LeftItemsContainer Gets the left LeftItemsContainer element
LeftItems Gets the collection of the left items.
RightItemsContainer Gets the right RightItemsContainer element
RightItems Gets the collection of the right items.
TabbedFormControlTabsElement Gets the TabbedFormControlTabsElement element
TabbedFormControlElement Gets the instance of TabbedFormControlElement wrapped by this control. TabbedFormControlElement is the main element in the hierarchy tree and encapsulates the actual functionality of RadTabbedFormControl.
MinimizeButton Gets or sets if the tabbed form has minimize button in its caption
MaximizeButton Gets or sets if the tabbed form has maximize button in its caption
CloseButton Gets or sets if the tabbed form has close button in its caption
BackColor RadTabbedFormControl consists of multiple visual elements and separate settings are provided to customize their appearance. Current BackColor property might be ignored.
ForeColor RadTabbedFormControl consists of multiple visual elements and separate settings are provided to customize their appearance. Current ForeColor property might be ignored.
CaptionHeight Gets or sets the height of the title bar.
ShowText Show or hides the text in the title bar.
ShowTabCloseButton Shows or hides the close button in each tab.
ShowTabPinButton Shows or hides the pin button in each tab.
ShowNewTabButton Shows or hides the new tab located after all tabs.
PinnedItemsPosition Set the pinned tabs position.
MinimumTabWidth Gets or sets the minimum width of the tabs.
TabSpacing Gets or set the space between the tabs.
ItemDragMode Gets or sets the mode that controls item drag operation within the element.

Events

Event Description
ItemDropping Occurs when an item is about to be dropped over another item.
ItemDropped Occurs when an item was dropped over another item.
ItemCreating Raised when page item is about to be created.
ContextMenuOpening Raised when page item is about to be created.
TabAdding Raised when a new tab is about to be added to the control. Cancelable.
TabAdded Raised when a new tab has been successfully added to the control.
TabRemoving Raised when a tab is about to be removed from the control. Cancelable.
TabRemoved Raised when a tab has been successfully removed from the control.
TabItemIndexChanging Raised when a page is about to change its index. Cancelable.
TabItemIndexChanged Raised when a tab's index has been successfully changed.
TabsClearing Raised when all tabs are about to be removed from the control. Cancelable.
TabsCleared Raised when all tabs have been successfully removed from the control.
SelectedTabChanging Raised when currently selected tab has changed.
SelectedTabChanged Raised when currently selected tab has changed.
NewTabRequested Raised when a new tab is requested.

RadTabbedFormControlElement

Properties

Property Description
ContentArea Gets the element which represents the content area of the tab view.
CaptionFill Gets the instance that represents the fill of the ribbon's caption.
CaptionBorder Gets the instance that represents the border of the ribbon's caption.
SelectedItem Gets or sets the currently selected item in the view.
NewItem Gets the item which stands for adding new tabs on click.
Items Gets all the items currently present within this element.
PinnedItems Gets all the pinned items.
ItemDragService Gets or sets the RadDragDropService instance which handles item drag requests.
ItemDragHint Gets or sets the RadImageShape instance which describes the hint that indicates where an item will be dropped after a drag operation.

Methods

Method Description
ItemFromPoint Gets the item that contains the porvided point (in control's client coordinates).

Events

Property Description
ItemClicked Occurs when a tab is clicked.
ItemCreating Occurs before a tab is created.
ContextMenuOpening Occurs before the default context menu is opened.
ItemSelecting Occurs before the tab is selected.
ItemSelected Occurs after a tab is selected.
ItemsChanged Occurs when a tab is added or removed.
ItemDropping Occurs before a tab is dropped.
ItemDropped Occurs after a tap is dropped.

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