TTabSheet - Set color and remove margin?

[PeterPanettone 158]

In a Delphi 10.4 VCL Application, I have a TPageControl container with a TTabSheet page (with TabVisible = False) and a TPanel on that TabSheet:

 

 

Although the Panel has Align = alClient, the Panel does not completely fill the TabSheet area: The TabSheet creates a MARGIN AREA around the Panel which I cannot get rid of. (The margin area is from the TabSheet and not from the Form, as the Form.Color is set to Fuchsia).

 

So I thought I could make the margin invisible by setting the TabSheet color to the same color as the Panel. BUT TTabSheet does not have a color property!

 

I have attached the very simple project, so you can play around with it yourself:

 

TabSheetColor.zip

 

Question: Is there a way to set the color of the full area of the TabSheet or to remove that margin from the TabSheet?

[David Heffernan 2354]

It would be far simpler to remove the page control and tabsheet and have the panel placed directly on the form.

[PeterPanettone 158]

5 minutes ago, David Heffernan said:

It would be far simpler to remove the page control and tabsheet and have the panel placed directly on the form.

If you have several panels then the handling becomes expensive.

 

Anything about the TPageControl/TTabsheet?

[Achim Kalwa 61]

39 minutes ago, PeterPanettone said:

Anything about the TPageControl/TTabsheet? 

You may try to set PageControl.Style to tsFlatButtons (but I don't know if the result is what you want).

[Mahdi Safsafi 225]

Is that what you want ?

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
type
  TControlHack = type TControl;
begin
  TControlHack(pgc1).Color := clWindow;
end;

 

[David Heffernan 2354]

1 hour ago, PeterPanettone said:

If you have several panels then the handling becomes expensive.

It's not at all difficult. Put them in a collection and hide all of them apart from the active one.

 

Has the benefit of doing exactly what you want. 

[PeterPanettone 158]

4 hours ago, David Heffernan said:

It's not at all difficult. Put them in a collection and hide all of them apart from the active one.

Good idea. Could you provide some example code?

[David Heffernan 2354]

I'm sure you know how to work with list objects, and how to set the Visible property. 

[Uwe Raabe 2064]

Seems that a TCardPanel is better suited for your needs.

Quote

Use the TCardPanel to manage a collection of cards. Each card is a container for other controls and only one card is active/visible at a time.

 

[Edwin Yip 154]

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6275161/133516

Also note my comments under that answer.