GDTabs - custom tabs control

[Mark Jones]

Thanks for looking into this Ramguru. I wish I knew more about GDI so I could help you. Squashing bugs can be tough, but also rewarding. :-)

The problem finder seems to work okay, with one minor artifact seen on test 2 (gray background on right side) which may be nothing, see the attached .png file.

The latest GDTabs works the same as previous for me, except for the new tabs created. If I try to close a new tab using it's little bubble, GDTabs crashes. The crash occurs at address 7c90316c, which is NTDLL.DLL at offset 316c. The exception is "Access violation when writing to [00405000]." This is from GDTabs calling RtlMoveMemory with a size argument of FFFFFFFC.

One other thing I just noticed is that if I try to click a tab, then cover GDTabs with another window, and click GDTabs in the start bar to bring it to the front again, the correct tab will now be shown. This is repeatable. Hope this helps. :U

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[ramguru]

with one minor artifact seen on test 2

I see you notice every detail  :U - however, this one is with no importance  :(

If I try to close a new tab using it's little bubble, GDTabs crashes. The crash occurs at address 7c90316c, which is NTDLL.DLL at offset 316c. The exception is "Access violation when writing to [00405000]." This is from GDTabs calling RtlMoveMemory with a size argument of FFFFFFFC.

Yeah I was inattentive, made few mistakes, this was one of them, just hoped everything with drawing will be alright this time - was wrong :)

One other thing I just noticed is that if I try to click a tab, then cover GDTabs with another window, and click GDTabs in the start bar to bring it to the front again, the correct tab will now be shown. This is repeatable. Hope this helps. :U

Thanks for letting me know.
I'm still trying...to fix...

[ramguru]

Finally the millennium bug is fixed  :U (check first post)
Big thanks go to Jupiter & Mark_Jones

[ragdog]

to ramguru

thanks however the first release has by me works on winxpsp2 

great works :U

greets
ragdog

[Mark Jones]

Woohoo that did it! So it was a millennium bug eh? :bg

This may be a difficult request, but do you think it would be possible to incorporate tab-stops on each tab or the tab-bar? That way a blind user or one without a mouse could still use this control. Just an idea, may be too much work. Thanks for working so hard on this. :clap:

[ramguru]

This may be a difficult request, but do you think it would be possible to incorporate tab-stops on each tab or the tab-bar?

I can try...if I succeed it will be in the next release (tab - for next_tab, shift_tab - for previous)

Thanks, ragdog for good words!

[Shell]

Very nice work ramguru  :U

This will definitely come in handy for a skinned app I'm working on  :bg

Thanks

[Ghirai]

Great work :U

Works fine here (XP Pro SP2 32bit, GeForce 8600GT, Core 2 Duo E6550).

As a small suggestion, you could make a tab to also close if you middle-mouse-click on it, possibly an optional feature.

[hoverlees]

WoW! It's very nice!

[ecube]

awesome job :D I found this source years ago to a dll, guy wrote it in masm, it let you visually draw controls, then it'd generate the win api code, I wish I cud find that damn source again, i'd love to add this control to it, and others, so can draw visually.

[guga]

can someone repost it (GDTAbs) please ?

Best Regards,

guga

[dedndave]

i think this is it

[FORTRANS]

Hi Dave,

   I assume that is from Hutch's new archive?  You could just
supply a link to save space?  (What would be nice is if the
"deleted" message supplied the name of the file or a link to it.)

$0.02,

Steve

[guga]

EXcelent work....Many tks

[dedndave]

http://www.masmforum.com/archive2012/4099_GDtabs_4ed.zip

actually, i couldn't find it in the archive my first pass - but there it is   :P