How can I get a TabPage from a TabControl based on a Point?

Question

Surely this has got to be easy; I'm just not having any luck with it.

How would I get the TabPage of a given TabControl whose tab contains a given Point? For example, if I'm handling the MouseUp event and I want to know which tab the mouse was over when it was released.

I tried GetChildAtPoint, but that seems to always return the first tab (unless I'm using it wrong).

Answer 1

You could try using the overload of GetChildAtPoint with GetChildAtPointSkip - this Connect bug suggests it could work.

Answer 2

Try this:

TabPage GetPageByPoint(TabControl tabControl, Point point)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < tabControl.TabPages.Count; i++)
    {
        TabPage page = tabControl.TabPages[i];
        if (tabControl.GetTabRect(i).Contains(point))
            return page;
    }
    return null;
}

Good luck!