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vts123
vts123

Reputation: 1776

How do I make a TabPage's title text bold?

I have some tabControl in C# Windows app. It has some tabPages. Does anyone kwows how to make the tabPage Text to become Bold..?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 19201

Answers (4)

user1744515
user1744515

Reputation: 1

This is an Image of TabPage.Text made Bold and with FontSize 25

All one has to do is write the main TabControl code as follows:

 TabControl0_1=New TabControl

 TabControl0_1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(1900,980)

 TabControl0_1.Location=New System.Drawing.Point(5,5)

 TabControl0_1.Font = New System.Drawing.Font("Segoe UI",25!, _
                       System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing. _
                       GraphicsUnit.Point,CType(0, Byte))

This takes care of everything. There are total 114 TabPages.

Upvotes: 0

Booji Boy
Booji Boy

Reputation: 4582

Another, less elegant option is to set the font->bold property of the parent form/control to true, which will make everything bold including the tab names and then set bold to false on all the controls you don't want bold.

Upvotes: 0

vts123
vts123

Reputation: 1776

You'll need to handle the DrawItem event of the TabControl to manually draw the caption. Note: DrawMode of affected control should be set to TabDrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed.

Here is a sample: 

private void tabControl1_DrawItem(object sender, DrawItemEventArgs e)
{

    Graphics g = e.Graphics;
    Brush _TextBrush;

    // Get the item from the collection.
    TabPage _TabPage = tabControl1.TabPages[e.Index];

    // Get the real bounds for the tab rectangle.
    Rectangle _TabBounds = tabControl1.GetTabRect(e.Index);

    if (e.State == DrawItemState.Selected)
    {
        // Draw a different background color, and don't paint a focus rectangle.
        _TextBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Blue);
        g.FillRectangle(Brushes.Gray, e.Bounds);
    }
    else
    {
        _TextBrush = new System.Drawing.SolidBrush(e.ForeColor);
       // e.DrawBackground();
    }

    // Use our own font. Because we CAN.
    Font _TabFont = new Font(e.Font.FontFamily, (float)9, FontStyle.Bold, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
    //Font fnt = new Font(e.Font.FontFamily, (float)7.5, FontStyle.Bold);

    // Draw string. Center the text.
    StringFormat _StringFlags = new StringFormat();
    _StringFlags.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center;
    _StringFlags.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center;
    g.DrawString(tabControl1.TabPages[e.Index].Text, _TabFont, _TextBrush,
                 _TabBounds, new StringFormat(_StringFlags));

}

Upvotes: 13

Oliver
Oliver

Reputation: 45101

In Winforms you can change the DrawMode and paint all the captions on yourself.

See the MSDN Example.

Upvotes: 3

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