[RESOLVED] Property Sheets on the main dialog

I have been playing around with property sheets/property pages and have been successful in getting them to work in a secondary dialog by calling the property sheet using DoModal().
I cannot figure out how to get the property sheet to display on the main dialog of a dialog application.
I am using VS2008 and CMFCPropertySheet and CMFCPropertyPage.

Did you try Create instead of DoModal?

Yes I tried this in the OnInitDialog()

Code:

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// TODO: Add extra initialization here
        m_dlgMainSheet.AddPage(&m_PageOne);
        m_dlgMainSheet.AddPage(&m_PageTwo);

        m_dlgMainSheet.Create(this, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 0);
        m_dlgMainSheet.ModifyStyleEx (0, WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT);
        m_dlgMainSheet.ModifyStyle( 0, WS_TABSTOP );

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Where m_dlgMainSheet is a CMFCPropertySheet declared in the main dialog header file.
I keep getting a "A required resource is not available" message when I start the app.

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Originally Posted by zapper222

I have been playing around with property sheets/property pages and have been successful in getting them to work in a secondary dialog by calling the property sheet using DoModal().
I cannot figure out how to get the property sheet to display on the main dialog of a dialog application.
I am using VS2008 and CMFCPropertySheet and CMFCPropertyPage.

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In the InitInstance method of app class, replace the default dialog with your propertysheet and call DoModal();

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Originally Posted by zapper222

Yes I tried this in the OnInitDialog()

Code:

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// TODO: Add extra initialization here
    m_dlgMainSheet.AddPage(&m_PageOne);
    m_dlgMainSheet.AddPage(&m_PageTwo);

    m_dlgMainSheet.Create(this, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 0);
    m_dlgMainSheet.ModifyStyleEx (0, WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT);
    m_dlgMainSheet.ModifyStyle( 0, WS_TABSTOP );

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Where m_dlgMainSheet is a CMFCPropertySheet declared in the main dialog header file.
I keep getting a "A required resource is not available" message when I start the app.

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You always can debug Create call and see what happens under the hood. But afraid property sheet was not designed to be a child window.

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Originally Posted by Arjay

In the InitInstance method of app class, replace the default dialog with your propertysheet and call DoModal();

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Yep that's the ticket, thanks Arjay.