I have had nothing but MEGA PAINS with the SSTab
(tabctl32.ocx). It is version 4.1 something (latest). This appears
to be one of the most poorly written pieces of software I have
ever seen. It is so very bug ridden I want to pull my hair out.

Here are my problems that someone will save me time if they
can find solutions for:

1. When you disable a tab by clicking on a option button outside
the tab, labels disappear on the tab you are looking at, as well
as anything inside a standard VB frame (on the tab). If you refresh the tab
by choosing another one, then going back to the one you were on,
it will appear correct.

2. When you are viewing a tab, and you disable it from an option
button off the tab control, it still lets you view it but it's title tab
is greyed and you lose about 50% of the controls on that tab,
they just hide themselves.

3. If you have a label on a panel (Ultbdr20.ocx) on a SSTab, it will
hide itself. You must use textboxes disguised as labels in order
for them to show. This isn't as good because it uses resources
and the users think it is screwy when they can highlight it.

4. There appears to be no way to bring a certain tab to the front.

Well the mega problems you get when you disable a tab are probably
what makes me most angry because I have wasted about 7 hours
of time trying to get a workaround and it works even worse now.

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wrote these mellifluous words, full of wisdom and thoughtful reflections:

1. If you attempt at disabling all the tabs with setting their
TabEnabled(n)=False, the last one will remain enabled, and you end up in
disabling the whole Tab with the above described effects.

2. Controls on a tab in the foreground with TabEnabled set to False are
accessible!!!!

3. The Click event for the control "extended" with the PreviousTab parameter is
an example of the most "useful" option: the Tab first switches to the tab
clicked, and triggers the event afterwards. If you attempt at resetting the Tab
to the PreviousTab value, the screen blinks like crazy, because actually two
clicks are triggered: to the new tab and back to the old one. Fantastic design!

4. With multitab Tabs, resetting the TabEnabled also results in nervous shaking
of the control - looks just ugly!

So, guys, we are leaving in the new era propagated by MS: the end user is the
cheapest tester for your products! If you take any brand new OCX (SSTab,
TrueDBGrid - this has been modified at least 3 times in attemts to enable the
Unbound mode, but it's a different story, as mesmerizing as the current one, and
a number of others) and compare them to the good old VBX prototypes, you can't
fail to notice that they all have adopted the NEW ERA STANDARD.

You can download an updated version of the 32-bit SSTab control from MS at:

http://www.microsoft.com/VBASIC/vbfrees/vbfrees.htm

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"When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro."
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Richard Mason, Stevenage, UK


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