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Hello,

  • Setting TCS_OWNERDRAWFIXED style is not enough, you have also to add TCS_FIXEDWIDTH style.

  • The minimum size of a tab is at least icon width + 3 if icon is present.
    If you have icons (imageList attached to tabControl), you might get those "sliding arrows" even with fixed width (if there is less space available than: number of tabs*(icon width+3)

najmeddine
This seems to be working. Thanks!
Joce