Tab control in a Dialog

[jbp2004]

Hi!

After consulting a number of articles/tutorials regarding property sheet, property pages, tab control... I decided to start this thread and ask for futher help. Sorry but I really find it hard to come up with what I want to make.

I am using Visual C++ Resource Editor, here I can make a dialog and I can make individual PROPERTY PAGES. My problem, I do not know how to makes these PROPERTY PAGES look like a tab control placed into my dialog.

Please someone help me. Thank You.

[Bond]

There was a thread about this just a week or so ago:
http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=302355

[Drum Bouncer]

Here is a class that I use, that helps a lot

class PROPERTYSHEET{
public:
	_declspec (dllexport) PROPERTYSHEET();
	_declspec (dllexport) ~PROPERTYSHEET();
	_declspec (dllexport) BOOL DoDialog(LPCTSTR caption, HWND hwnd);
	_declspec (dllexport) BOOL AddPage(LPCTSTR title, HINSTANCE hInst, LPCTSTR pszTemplate, DLGPROC pfnDlgProc);

private:
	PROPSHEETPAGE pPages[MAX_PROP_PAGES];
	PROPSHEETHEADER psh;
	int nPages;
};

/******************************************************************************
	PROPERTYSHEET();

	Constructs a property sheet object
******************************************************************************/
_declspec (dllexport) PROPERTYSHEET::PROPERTYSHEET(){
	nPages=0;
}

/******************************************************************************
	~PROPERTYSHEET();

	Destroys the property sheet object
******************************************************************************/
_declspec (dllexport) PROPERTYSHEET::~PROPERTYSHEET(){}

/******************************************************************************
	DoDialog();

	Invokes a modal property sheet

	LPCTSTR caption = Caption of the dialog
	HWND hwnd = Parent window of the dialog
******************************************************************************/
_declspec (dllexport) BOOL PROPERTYSHEET::DoDialog(LPCTSTR caption, HWND hwnd){

	psh.dwSize = sizeof(PROPSHEETHEADER); 
	psh.dwFlags = PSH_DEFAULT | PSH_PROPSHEETPAGE | DS_SYSMODAL; 		
	psh.hwndParent = hwnd; 
	psh.hInstance = NULL; 
	psh.pszCaption = caption; 
	psh.nPages = nPages; 
	psh.nStartPage = 0; 
	psh.ppsp = pPages; 

	return ::PropertySheet(&psh);
}

/******************************************************************************
	AddPage();

	Adds a page (tab) to the property sheet

	LPCTSTR title = Caption of the tab
	HINSTANCE hInst = Instance handle for the page
	LPCTSTR pszTemplate = Address of a resource template for the page's dialog
	DLGPROC pfnDlgProc = Address of dialog procedure for the page
******************************************************************************/
_declspec (dllexport) BOOL PROPERTYSHEET::AddPage(LPCTSTR title, HINSTANCE hInst, LPCTSTR pszTemplate, DLGPROC pfnDlgProc){

	if(nPages >= MAX_PROP_PAGES){
		return FALSE;
	}
	
	pPages[nPages].dwSize = sizeof(PROPSHEETPAGE); 
	pPages[nPages].dwFlags = PSP_DEFAULT | PSP_USETITLE; 
	pPages[nPages].pszTitle = title;
	pPages[nPages].hInstance = hInst;
	pPages[nPages].pszTemplate = pszTemplate;   
	pPages[nPages].pfnDlgProc = pfnDlgProc; 


	nPages++;

	return TRUE;
}

[jbp2004]

I appreciate your answers.

I am starting to learn creating windows purely using API calls.
I am doing it "the hard way"

Once I'm done, I will make my own tutorial for this. I also want to help those
who cannot easily figure it out.