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Modifying tab control behavior

I have been toying around with a tab control trying to customize it to suit my needs.  I currently have a tab control with a transparent background (since it is within another tab control, and I find it looks far better without any borders or anything) that cotains 4 tabs.

I'm wondering if there's any way to change the colour of the different tab texts, based on the selection.  For instance, if you click on tab A, which has the text "TAB A", is there any way to change the colour of that (and only that) text?  As it stands, it's somewhat difficult to distinguish from the other tabs, since all of the tab outlines are transparent, the text only shifts to the left a little.

I've played around with the properties, but with no success.  I feel like this probably isn't possible, but if anyone has any other ideas of how to distinguish the text, I'm all ears (or eyes I guess).

Thanks for your help.
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Two suggestions: either hide the tabs and create other buttons to handle the switching of your tabs (what I do when I want to create a more elegant interface where tabs "don't make sense") or change the FP colors of all the other pages. That way only your page will have a transparent background and it's label will stand out.

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Good call.  I never thought to make the tabs invisible themselves and just use buttons.  I'll play around with that.

Thanks for the suggestion.
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