Procedure: How to Enable Full Screen Mode for the Tab Control

You may resize the tab control to fit the full screen of your layout, making the tab control the full background of your window at run time. When set to full screen mode, scroll bars will not be applied to the output window. Therefore, you may have to adjust the tab control (and any items on the tab) in the layout to ensure that they appear appropriately for display at run time.

Note: It is recommended to set the tab control to full screen mode at the beginning of the development process. If there are existing components on the layout that are not part of the tab control, these components will become inaccessible if the tab control is changed to full screen mode.

  1. From the Containers group, click Tab.

    The pointer changes into a crosshair.

  2. Drag the crosshair in the layout to create the tab control object.
  3. From the Properties panel, enable Autosize Children for the document, set Autosize options for the tab control object to Accept any changes, and then right-click the canvas and click Update Layout.

    The tab control displays as a full screen in the layout.

    For more information on Autosize Children, see Using Autosize.