When a sstab control is used with multiple rows showing and a user clicks on a tab in say the 2nd row. The control moves the 2nd row to the front and pushes the other rows back. This confuses some users and they would like the order to always remain the same. Is there anyway to do this?

Well, of course you could create your own behavior by setting 2 different tab controls up against each other, and handle all the events yourself—(what a pain).

I think the control itself is just wired to be that way. The tabbed interfaces for properties in Word, et al., all behave this way.

I agree with Brian, and in fact I hate all those controls.... it is really confusing! I never use the sstab, I roll my own using the standard TabStrip control (in Microsoft Windows Common Control 6). Of course there is more code to write, but at least we get exactly what you want (or I use a simple comboBox or a ListBox...)

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To my knowledge, it can't be done like that. Its the default behavior for the sstab control. To ease you work... now using tabs are bit old style..,, they put the tree control at the left and the array of the frame at right and onclick of the node that particular frame is shown... its a lot work, but output will have prof look and when you add icons to the tree.. it looks much better.

(this is just a thought) hope this helps...

With Regards,
Raghavendra Mudugal