TabControl styling issue

[OswyChow]

Hello guys, im pretty new to wpf development and development in general, im tackling my first application and i decided to use HandyControl because of its simplicity (tried some others and it was hell). I incurred into a problem with the tab control and was wondering if its normal, what happens is that after i set a style to the tabcontrol element for example Style="{StaticResource TabControlCapsule}" the other attributes that i specified, for example IsScrollable="True" ShowScrollButton="True" get overridden and i cant make them work, i tried creating a style in the window resources as BasedOn but i cant seem to be able to override the style's ones. I noticed that if i dont explicitly set a style it all works fine except i dont have that neat selection line under the tabs when they get selected and i really want that.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[ghost1372]

Hi, note that there are 2 types of tabcontrol

• TabControl
  example:

<TabControl Style="{StaticResource TabControlCapsule}"/>

• Hc TabControl
  example:

<hc:TabControl IsScrollable="True"/>

The important thing is that the styles only work in the <TabControl and Not <hc:TabControl
Also, properties like IsScrollable only work in <hc:TabControl

Please read the documentation

https://ghost1372.github.io/handycontrol/native_controls/tabControl/

https://ghost1372.github.io/handycontrol/extend_controls/tabControl/

[OswyChow]

Oh that makes sense!
Is it possible to have that selection line under the tab element when selected like seen in the tabcontrol styles?

[ghost1372]

i think you need TabControlInLine style

[OswyChow]

i think you need TabControlInLine style

Is it possible to have both the IsScrollable property (so using hc:TabControl) and the selection line that the TabControl's TabControlInLine style gives? Or is it something that just the native tab control can have?

[OswyChow]

i think you need TabControlInLine style

Is it possible to have both the IsScrollable property (so using hc:TabControl) and the selection line that the TabControl's TabControlInLine style gives? Or is it something that just the native tab control can have?

I just solved it by installing the custom version (HandyControls) and setting IsUWPStyle = True
Hope this will help someone who wants to achieve the same!