Note how the photograph’s base file name is used as the text for each tab page, and how the full file path appears as a tool tip associated with each tab.

Figure 11.3

Each tab page in the tab control for this window displays an image stretched to fit a PictureBox control.

You may think that we need to add a new Form class to our project using Visual Studio .NET. This would certainly work, but you do not need a new file in Visual Studio every time a new form is required. Instead, we will create this form by hand. We will add a new MenuItem object to the context menu built in section 10.5 to provide access to this new form.

This section creates the new menu item and associated Click handler. The next section discusses tab pages, and will continue the implementation of this new form.

Set the version number of the MyAlbumEditor application to 11.1.

As you may recall, this context menu is associated with the lstPhotos control. Whenever the user right-clicks on list and selects our new item, the menuImages_Click handler will execute. In this handler we will create our new form.

The steps to create a tab control on a form programmatically are shown in the following table. The next section will add the individual tab pages to this form.

IMPLEMENT THE CLICK EVENT HANDLER TO CREATE A NEW FORM

As you can see, this code creates a Form with a single TabControl object docked to fill the entire window area. The hot tracking feature causes a tab’s text to change color as the mouse passes over the tab. Both this feature and tool tips are enabled for all tab pages in the control.