tabbed-interface

I've seen two threads here about TDI & C#. Both of them didn't really answer the questions I have ... Since TDIs are pretty much like a standard nowadays, I can hardly imagine, that I have to buy a special control (like AvalonDock or SandDock). This must be possible with built in the tab-control(?) somehow! I don't need special features like dock- and draggable tabitems. Just open every form in a new tab. Thats it. Like putting every forms content controls into user controls and by request (button, menu click ...) add a new tab and put the corresponding user control on it ... something like

I am trying to implement Google Chrome style tabs, in Windows 7, in a Delphi application. The elements of this are: tabs may extend into the non-client area as they do in google chrome itself. draws properly on Vista and Windows 7 when glass is enabled tabs work just like google chrome, and look like google chrome, over glass. I have found that the challenges I have to overcome are: How do I get a control (VCL control) to extend into the non-client area? (A good sample of a control that does this is the Ribbon control included in the VCL sources, but I haven't seen anybody else do it, and it