How would one go about finding out the width of a tab not the tab window,
just the top portion. I need to replace the tab with a control that displays
unicode since the SSTAB control does not support unicode.

Show quote Hide quote If you right click on a tab of the tab control and select properties, you
see a TabMaxWidth property for each tab. I set this to 0, which I guess
means to size the tab according to the size of the TabCaption. My tabs vary
in size depending on the caption. I assume you can set the TabMaxWidth as
desired. If like me you have assigned 0, then you either must guess or find
documentation on how the width is determined from the length (and font) of
the caption.

If you use TabStrip instead, maybe you can use TCM_GETITEMRECT, but I think
it's for the whole tab. However, TabStrip supports Unicode when you send
TCM_SETUNICODEFORMAT, and then set the text using TCM_SETITEMW. Pass the
string as "ByVal StrPtr(s)" so VB doesn't convert the string to ANSI. I
think you need to use SendMessageW() instead of SendMessage(). Search the
newsgroups for these messages for samples. I haven't tried this, so proceed
at your own risk...

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