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Zak
Zak

Reputation: 734

Grid-like WPF control

I'd like to implement a 'TabManager' control which can be instantiated much like a Grid in XAML. This looks like a fairly common task, but I couldn't seem to find a tutorial and I still don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I was wondering if anyone here had an example.

I'd want the XAML to generate the control to look something like this:

   <TabManager>
        <TabManager.TabDefinitions>
            <TabDefinition Caption="Tab 1"/>
            <TabDefinition Caption="Tab 2"/>
            <TabDefinition Caption="Tab 3"/>
        </TabManager.TabDefinitions>

        <TabPanel TabManager.Tab="0">
            <TextBlock Text="foo"/>
        </TabPanel>
        <TabPanel TabManager.Tab="1">
            <TextBlock Text="bar"/>
        </TabPanel>
        <TabPanel TabManager.Tab="2">
            <TextBlock Text="baz"/>
        </TabPanel>
    </TabManager>

The TabManager will render a few buttons and some elements to contain the TabPanels' children - e.g. place them into a DockPanel or whatever else I choose to do; shouldn't matter.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 179

Answers (1)

Ebikeneser
Ebikeneser

Reputation: 2374

Have you tried <TabControl>?

For instance -

<TabControl>
        <TabItem Header="Tab1" x:Name="Tab1">
            <Grid>
                <TextBlock Text="foo"/>
            </Grid>
        </TabItem>
        <TabItem Header="Tab2" x:Name="Tab2">
            <Grid>
                <TextBlock Text="bar"/>
            </Grid>
        </TabItem>
        <TabItem Header="Tab3" x:Name="Tab3">
            <Grid>
                <TextBlock Text="baz"/>
            </Grid>
         </TabItem>
    </TabControl>

Upvotes: 2

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