Title: Dynamic Pagecontrols
Question: How can I create a TPageControl and the corresponding TTabSheets dynamically?
Answer:
The trick is the correct parenting. Tabsheets belong to a certain Pagecontrol. You have
to set the Pagecontrol property of the Tabsheet to tell Delphi where to place your Tabsheet
(you can use this property to move a tabsheet from one pagecontrol to another one).
Sample code:
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
PGC: TPageControl;
tab1, tab2: TTabSheet;
begin
PGC := TPageControl.Create(self);
with PGC do begin
Parent := self;
Top := 20;
Left := 40;
Height := 100;
Width := 300;
end;
tab1 := TTabSheet.Create(PGC);
with tab1 do begin
Visible := true;
Caption := 'Dynamic Tabsheet';
PageControl := PGC;
end;
tab2 := TTabSheet.Create(PGC);
with tab2 do begin
Visible := true;
Caption := 'Dynamic Tabsheet - Sheet 2';
PageControl := PGC;
end;
with TButton.Create(self) do begin
Parent := tab2;
Left := 10;
Top := 10;
Caption := 'A Button';
end;
// if you've got more than one tabsheet, you'll have to cylce them trough once.
// otherwise, the pagecontrol doesn't initialize properly.
PGC.ActivePage := tab2;
PGC.ActivePage := tab1;
end;