horizontal tabs when they are on the left side of tab control

[GregFreeman]

I have a tab control for a touch screen where I was going to use buttons along the left side to change tabs, and hide the tabs. However, I realized I can put the tabs on the left side of the tab control and remove my buttons all together. Only issue is, I would like them (along with their font) to be horizontal, not vertical as they are shown in my screenshot. Is there a way to change this?

[Darin.K · Accepted solution]

I'd use images instead of text.  (The images could be text of course).

[ben64]

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@Darin.K wrote:

I'd use images instead of text.  (The images could be text of course).

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That is the trick, the text cannot be rotated.

Ben64

[paul_a_cardinale]

It's a really poor design aspect of tab controls that the text is sideways when the tabs are on the left or right side.

I've looked into it and found no way to re-orient the text.

However you can put images on the tabs instead of text, and the images can be of text (correctly oriented of course).

The attached code can be used to generate such a tab control.

[Peter-R]

Hello, 

Would you mind the tabs running along the top? Is there a reason you need them along the side? 

[Peter-R]

Very cool