delphivcl.PageControl is a set of pages used to make a multiple page dialog box.
We can use PageControl to create a multiple page dialog or tabbed notebook. PageControl displays multiple overlapping pages that are TabSheet objects (we will discuss TabSheet in another article).
The user selects a page by clicking the page’s tab that appears at the top of the control.
You can define an accelerator key to a page of the PageControl. To define the accelerator key use the Caption property of the TabSheet control.
We can browse all the properties, methods, and built-in properties of the delphivcl.PageControl using dir() command:
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import delphivcl dir(delphivcl.PageControl) |
See the responses in command prompt:
Here is the working example of the implementation of delphivcl.PageControl:
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# Page control creation pgConMain = PageControl(pnlMain) pgConMain.Name = "MyPageControl" pgConMain.Parent = pnlMain pgConMain.Align = "alClient" |
We will add and discuss the TabSheet and how to show the tabs in our GUI in the next article.
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Note for beta release users
In practice, the only difference between DelphiVCL4Python release version and the beta version is only in how you write the DelphiVCL. Here is the example for how you import the library:
- Release version:
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from delphivcl import * |
- Beta version:
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from DelphiVCL import * |
Watch this comprehensive introduction to Python GUI Development with DelphiVCL library video by Jim McKeeth:
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References & further readings
[1] Embarcadero DocWiki. (2016).
Vcl.ComCtrls.TPageControl. Embarcadero DocWiki. Embarcadero Technologies. docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.ComCtrls.TPageControl
