How to insert another control into TTabItem in Firemonkey

Question

I would like to insert an additional TText into the "tabbed" part TTabItem of a TTabControl, so that I can have another text of a different color.

It seems a control can't be moved to that "tabbed" portion.

Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

As the requirement is to have a simple text displayed on a TTabItem this can be easily implemented using the onPaint event of the TTabItem control. So this code:

procedure TForm1.TabItem1Paint(Sender: TObject; Canvas: TCanvas; const ARect: TRectF);
var
  R: TRectF;
begin
  // Use only 1/3 top part of the canvas
  R:=RectF(ARect.Left, ARect.Top, ARect.Right, ARect.Bottom / 3);
  // Set font color and size
  Canvas.Fill.Color := TAlphaColors.Seagreen;
  Canvas.Font.Size := 12;
  // Draw text
  Canvas.FillText(R, 'New!', False, 1, [], TTextAlign.Center, TTextAlign.Center);
end;

Produces this: