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Tab control not hilighting selected tab in yellow

At design time, in VB, my certain form with TabControl looks and behaves fine. However, at run-time, the yellow hilights that show you which tab you clicked on don't appear. They also don't appear on mouseover. What gives? I verified that the hilights do appear if I look at Control Panel -> System.

Kevin8264 Friday, January 26, 2007 9:13 PM

I've got an orange stripe on the tab with VisualStyles enabled both in my program and in Windows. Is that what you're talking about?

nobugz Friday, January 26, 2007 9:37 PM

System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles()

Duh I should have done more digging

Kevin8264 Friday, January 26, 2007 10:15 PM

I've got an orange stripe on the tab with VisualStyles enabled both in my program and in Windows. Is that what you're talking about?

nobugz Friday, January 26, 2007 9:37 PM

yes, my bad, it's orange.

i got an inkling this has to do with "Enable XP visual styles"...

The way my program is structured, a C# subroutine calls a VB DLL which blah blah starts a new thread which starts the form where my tab control is. What's missing?

Kevin8264 Friday, January 26, 2007 10:06 PM

System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles()

Duh I should have done more digging

Kevin8264 Friday, January 26, 2007 10:15 PM

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