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Florian Schmitz
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XamDockManager: How to clearly distinguish selected from unselected tabs as in XP theme
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Hi,

in Windows XP/2003 the XamDockManager tabs look like this (selected tab is clearly distinguished from the inactive tab):

XP

In Win7 it looks like this:

Win7

1. How can I make the inactive tab look like the first screenshot when running on Win7? I prefer the way it is displayed in the first screenshot because it is much more obvious.

2. How can I make it so that the inactive tab is also "grayed out" when there are two separate tab areas? Even when on XP, both tabs have the active blue color when two document areas exist:

Two areas

Thanks,

Florian

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  • 22015
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    Hello Florian,

     

    Thank you for your post!

     

    I have been looking into your issue and have created a small sample application for you. In the sample application I have a simple xamDockManager, containing two ContentPanes. In order the selected pane to be different from the others you can create a style for the PaneTabItem and set the background property.

    This way the tabs, that are not selected would have a different background from the selected one.

     

    Please find the attached sample application and feel free to let me know if you have any further questions on this matter.

    DockManager_ContentPaneBorder1.zip
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