A TabBar is the rectangular area that contains the visual representation of all the tabs. The TabBar class is a subclass of CompositeField (see CompositeField Class) and inherits all of its attributes, methods and events.

TabBar tabs can display text or images or both. The shape of the tabs is defined primarily by the tabbar's TabShape attribute, but if this attribute is set to COR_BITMAPPED, the tabshape is defined entirely by the NormalBitmap and SelectedBitmap images if present and active, and the tabs can be made to highlight or respond in other ways on mouse-over.

For more information about how to display and activate bitmapped tabs, see the TabShape Attribute.