My beloved TabControl

I have to admit I love tabcontrols! They're the best way for maximizing space.
No Step through, no page flipping and no collapsible panels are more often used than tabcontrols.

Since the earlier days of windows forms, they're the default onboard tools.
Also mobile apps takes the advantage of tabs and tab designs

Update: A rounded interface design for small factor screens

Code following soon!

This example here is for darker / gray blended UI's.

Simply but very handy on touchscreen terminals: Code

The nasty combobox...

At first look, a combobox is just a textbox and a button, so this should be an easy one to customize.
Well, there's a lot more under the hood than some people are expecting.
Keyword Items/Item-Bindings.

for now, here's a simple template of a combobox:

As you can see, the dropdrop panel's alpha is reduced to half (transparency effect with gradient), and the "textbox" was merged with the "dropdown-button" to one style.

Code


I know, this is quite often used and not really innovative, however from point of view of a user, the most accepted version.


I will show another example (with animation), which looks "shiny" and "flashy", but lags, when it comes to identification by the user.