I have to develop a customized tab control and decided to create it with WPF/XAML, because I planned to learn it anyway. It should look like this when it's finished:
I made good progress so far, but there are two issues left:
Only the first/last tab item should have a rounded upper-left/bottom-left corner. Is it possible to modify the style of these items, similar to the way I did with the selected tab item?
The selected tab item should not have a border on its right side. I tried to accomplish this with z-index and overlapping, but the results were rather disappointing. Is there any other way to do this?
XAML:
<Window x:Class="MyProject.TestWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="TestWindow" Height="350" Width="500" Margin="5" Background="LightGray">
<Window.Resources>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type TabControl}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TabControl}">
<DockPanel>
<Border
Margin="0,100,-1,0"
Background="#FFAAAAAA"
BorderBrush="Gray"
CornerRadius="7,0,0,7"
BorderThickness="1">
<TabPanel
Margin="0,0,0,0"
IsItemsHost="True" />
</Border>
<Border
Background="WhiteSmoke"
BorderBrush="Gray"
BorderThickness="1"
CornerRadius="7,7,7,0" >
<ContentPresenter
ContentSource="SelectedContent" />
</Border>
</DockPanel>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
<Grid>
<Border Name="Border"
Background="#FFAAAAAA"
CornerRadius="7,0,0,0"
BorderBrush="Gray"
BorderThickness="0,0,0,1"
Margin="0,0,0,0">
<ContentPresenter x:Name="ContentSite"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
ContentSource="Header"
Margin="10,10,10,10"/>
</Border>
</Grid>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
<Setter TargetName="Border"
Property="Background"
Value="WhiteSmoke" />
</Trigger>
</ControlTemplate.Triggers>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
<TabControl Name="_menuTabControl" TabStripPlacement="Left" Margin="5">
<TabItem Name="_tabItem1" Header="First Tab Item" ></TabItem>
<TabItem Name="_tabItem2" Header="Second Tab Item" >
<Grid />
</TabItem>
<TabItem Name="_tabItem3" Header="Third Tab Item" >
<Grid />
</TabItem>
</TabControl>
</Grid>
