Could you build a custom page control (as a component or not) that behaves like a normal page control (in terms of methods, properties and events as well as visual behavior) but has the following features (see ATTACHED mockup):
1. Active page tab wider, displays larger font (RTF) than inactive tabs, secondary text (RTF), optional folder browse icon (and corresponding folderchange event), maximize & close button
2. Inactive tabs show grayed out close icon that turns red at hover and can be clicked to close that page without diplaying that page or losing focus from Active page. In other words from a window/object point of view, other tabs should be treated as graphical part of the active page?? (I'm no expert on this)
3. Includes arrows that appear when not all tabs are displayed.
4. Includes drop-down list of pages that can be made active.
5. Has XPish look but all white backgrounds.
This is quite different from a normal page control including focus issues in point 2. so you may want to build it from scratch. Perhaps even out of shapes and panels etc?? Whatever you think . .
Regards - Paul
PS Mention if you we base it on existing page control code or not and whetehr it will be a component or just code.
## Deliverables
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## Platform
Win32