Tab control top property

Hi
I am trying to create a program that spans on the entire screen i've set the pane size to the same size of the screen and set the origin to 0,0
My problem is that the tab control which almost spans on the entire screen is out of the borders and can't all be seen.
When i try to set the top property on the tab control property node it moves all the controls inside the tab control down every time I run the program so after 5 runs al my controls have moved out of the screen too.
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks

"Tabview" I like that.
Yikes, why are your fonts at at 7pt??
Anyways, I am not seeing the problem that you are talking about. I can run it continuously and the controls don't change location over and over. They all go to the locations calculated and those locations don't change from run to run.

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