Tabs Control

Tabs control gives basic infrastructure and functionality to add tabbed panels to your application.

It provides a container and a tab navigation system.

It provides following properties to customize the control.

Properties	Description
Size	Set size for the container.
SelectedItem	Sets selected tab, and show associated content.
Builder	returns TabControlBuilder

Create a tab control programmatically

Easiest way to create a tab instance is to use TabControlBuilder provides features related to add content in the tab control.

Methods	Description
AddItem	Adds a single item.
AddItems	Adds a set of items.
WithSize	Specifies a size for tab control
WithActiveItemTextColor	Specifies active text color for tab item.
WithInactiveItemTextColor	Specifies inactive text color for tab item.

var tabEntity = TabControl.Builder
    .Create()
    .WithSize(new Vector2(0.3f, 0.2f))
    .AddItem(new TabItem
    {
        Name = () => "Tab Name",
        Contents = () => this.CreateContent(), // Function to set content entity
    })
    .Build();  

In XRV we make use of this tab control builder in configuration and help windows. If you want a window which only content entity is a tab control, you can make use of TabbedWindow class.

Tab items definition

TabItem provides tab and content for the tab control.

Properties	Description
Name	Tab Name.
Data	General purpose data.
Order	Order to be displayed.
Contents	Content for the tab item.