Adding tabs to a tab control dynamically

[S2000magician]

I'd like to put a tab control on a form and have it be able to add tabs dynamically depending on what the user does. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it?



To put this in context, I have a number of model portfolios which the user may want to change (i.e., sell some securities in a portfolio, purchase other securities). I would like to have a tab control with a tab for each portfolio that the user has changed. So, every time the user selects a different portfolio to change, I'd like it to create a new tab for that portfolio.

Note that I cannot specify (statically) the number of tabs because it's possible that the number of model portfolios will change over time.

Thanks!

[CJ_London]

not possible to do - well you can but that involves the user going into form design to add a new tab. Not a direction you want to go.

Consider having a listbox down the side or combo at the top for the user to select the portfolio required, rather than using tabs.

you can create multiple instances of a form - still requires use of combo or listbox but you can view portfolios side by side. Easy to do in principle but depends on what you are doing to ensure actions on one instance of the form do not affect other instances - generally requires a higher level of understanding of how access works, an undertanding of object orientation programming and an understanding of class modules.

[S2000magician]

Thanks, Ajax.

I think.

[davegri]

s2000-davegri-v01.zip

Have a look at this example. It's a bit different approach in that it will not create new tabs, but will let you assign forms to existing tabs.
Form has 3 tabs, initially empty.
Form has 3 combo boxes, allowing you to select a form to place on each tab. The tab captions change to identify the form.

The example forms to place on the tabs are frmValue, frmRetirement, frmAgressive