IntegralUI Containers

IntegralUI Containers v2.1 What's New:

• Option to show tabs in hierarchy with ability to be shown in different sides. For this purpose the following properties are added:
  • TabStripPlacement, for each page to determine the side on which page tab will be shown
  • UseParentTabStripPlacement, which determines whether page can have their own setting of side or from its parent TabControl
  • Pages, a collection of child pages added to this page
  • ParentPage, determines the parent page of the current page in hierarchy
  • Expanded, determines whether page will show its child pages
  • FlatList, a collection which holds all pages in linear mode. Best used for cycling through all pages
  • CurrentList, a collection of all pages that are currently scrollable in the TabControl. All hidden pages or pages that their parent is collapsed are not contained in this collection.
  • ShowOnMultipleSides, determines whether pages can be shown in different sides simultaneously
  • Option to show navigation buttons for all sides with hierarchical tabs
• RightToLeft supported. Now tabs can be shown starting from right side and continuing to the left direction. Or from bottom to top.
• Remove method to easy deleting the page from its parent collection
• The TabControl designer is updated and now you can create hierarchical structure of TabPages from VS designer.

What's New in IntegralUI Containers v2.0:

• Multiline tabs
• Option to create tabs with rich content: text, images and hyperlinks in custom layouts
• Predefined and Custom DragDrop operations
• Content of page tab can be divided in multiple lines when resized
• Option to change the color of drop marker

What's Fixed in IntegralUI Containers v2.0:

• The order of drawing page tab is fixed for Left/Right tab placement and TrapezoidalLeft/TrapezoidalRight shape
• Repaint of TabControl borders during resize
• During justified mode no longer TabControl takes the max tab width and apply it to all tabs
• There is no more confusion during StyleFromParent set to false for pages if their FormatStyle is changed
• Using separate styles for specific pages in TabControl

IntegralUI Container includes Expander, SplitContainter, TabControl and TabDockContainer.
These controls provde the following feature set :

Expander

• Use of command buttons in control header for specific tasks
• General color and format styles for control appearance
• Color styles for every state (disabled, hover, normal and selected) of control header
• Color styles for every state (disabled, hover and normal)  of command buttons
• Customizable border with three shapes: squared, rounded and chamfered
• Fading effect with five speed levels
• Watermarks
• Theme support
• Visual Styles: Vista, XP and Classic

SplitContainer

• Three ways to change the appearance of tab strip: using tabs, collapsing buttons or standard splitter
• Choose among 7 predefined shapes of tabs
• Use of command buttons in control tab strip for specific tasks
• Option to set the minimal size of panels
• Horizontal and vertical orientation of splitter and panels
• General color and format styles for control appearance
• Color style for customizing the appearance of control tab strip
• Color styles for every state (hover, normal and selected) of panels
• Color styles for every state (disabled, hover, normal and selected)  of command buttons
• Customizable border with three shapes: squared, rounded and chamfered
• Fading effect with five speed levels
• Watermarks
• Theme support
• Visual Styles: Vista, XP and Classic

TabControl

• Unique ability to make combination of toolbar and tabs
• Use standard left-right navigation or select the specified tab from a list
• Tabs can be displayed in three modes: AutoSized, Compressed and Justified
• Tabs can contain command buttons for specific tasks
• Choose among 7 predefined shapes of tabs
• Option to change the radius of tab corner
• Use of animated gifs in each tab
• Horizontal and vertical orientation of tab content
• Tabs can be placed on each side: left, top, right and bottom
• Add buttons, labels and separators to the toolbar in control tab strip
• Toolbar can contain items on left and right side of the tab strip
• Choose how tabs are closed: dispose or hide them
• Option to set the maximum width for longer text
• Rich styling features
• High customization of every control part
• Customizable tooltips
• Customizable border with three shapes: squared, rounded and chamfered
• Fading effect with five speed levels
• Watermarks
• Theme support
• Visual Styles: Vista, XP and Classic

TabDockContainer

• Tabs can be placed on left and right side of the tab strip
• Each page acts as a docking container
• Each tab can open docking container in horizontal or veritical orientation
• Tabs can be docked on each side: left, top, right and bottom
• Horizontal and vertical orientation of tab content
• Fading effect with five speed levels
• Rich styling features
• High customization of every control part
• Many options to change appearance of tabs
• Watermarks
• Theme support
• Visual Styles: Vista, XP and Classic