Tab control size

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I am using direct skin to skin an application of mine that used to do a lot of owner drawn stuff. To get it to actually skin I had to take all that out and consequently the custom size I had used to use for my tabs went away... Is there any way in skin studio to increase the size of tabs manually? It is a touch screen application so trying to poke at small tabs just really isn't an option.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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Haha very funny on the referral link, but you obviously don't understand whats going on.I was using the owner draw mechanic to make the tabs larger. But I cannot use owner draw mechanics if I want a skin.

I am talking about a way to increase the tab size IN skin studio. Once you initiate owner draw mechanics anything a windows blind skin would do is rendered void. As in the skin doesn't apply to the control, the owner draw mechanic overides everything smart guy.

I'm talking about the actual size of the individual tabs mind you.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I changed the center tab size graphic on the blind that I'm working on but when saved didn't see a difference so, I'm assuming that changing the graphic size will not do it. I'm not aware of a soft switch setting that impacts the size of the tabs.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thats been my experience too, I tried the same thing myself. I suppose this is not possible then. Hmm, I suppose I'd have to know the exact methods DirectSkin is using to overide windows defaults in order to attempt to make owner drawing compatible with it. But this is far more a programming question than SkinStudio support.