CPropertySheet with vertical pages

Hello,

How can I properly create and use a CPropertySheet object with vertically arranged pages?

Here I've uploaded a demo project with source code included. It's just a simple SDI application which has main view class CVerticalPropSheetView (derived from CView) containing property sheet CPropSheetDemo (derived from CPropertySheet) with 3 property pages:

http://forum.codenet.ru/attachment.p...1&d=1173007311
http://www.rsdn.ru:80/File/35531/VerticalPropSheet.rar

I tried to follow the advice from one of topics at CodeGuru forum (http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archiv.../t-331500.html) however, I've discovered the following issues related to resizing of the property sheet's window in CVerticalPropSheetView::OnSize():

1) When changing size of CPropSheetDemo window so that its width is less than its height, the tabs of the bottom property pages are not properly drawn. It looks like only rectangle part of property sheet (width x width) is being drawn properly.

2) When changing height of CPropertySheet window so that it can't display all tabs, the spin control is displayed. However, it doesn't work (I can't choose tab using spin control).

Does anyone know how to resolve these issues? All above appears only when property pages are arranged vertically - e.g. until I comment the following lines of code in CPropSheetDemo::OnInitDialog():


// create the new font for property pages' titles
CreateNewFont(&m_Font,14,_T("Microsoft Sans Serif"));

// make our property sheet vertical-oriented
CWnd* pctrlTab=GetDlgItem(AFX_IDC_TAB_CONTROL);
if (pctrlTab!=NULL) {
pctrlTab->ModifyStyle(TCS_FOCUSONBUTTONDOWN,TCS_VERTICAL,0);
pctrlTab->SetFont(&m_Font);
}


Many thanks in advance!

dp

Does anybody know how to resolve this issue? Still can't find an answer.

I don't know if this article might help you. It's a Windows Tab Control that supports tabs in any orientation. Apparently it only works for Windows XP - and even then, only with XP Themes enabled.

Have you thought about what should happen if your property sheet needed more tabs than would fit in a single row? Horizontal property pages cater for this automatically but vertical tabs are possibly going to be more trouble than they're worth.

John,

Thank you for pointing out this interesting article. I've flicked through it and find it is rather useful. Although, I have no idea how to use custom Tab Control with the MFC CPropertySheet class (?).

After getting no answer to my question, I decided to look at the MFC source code for CPropertySheet. Hell, I should have beed done this before posting my question. It's pretty straightforward and I've discovered that the problem is apparently related to the mutual incompatibility between the flags TCS_VERTICAL and TCS_SINGLELINE (scrolling property pages). So, I've just removed EnableStackedTabs(FALSE) in the constructor of my class CPropSheetDemo derived from CPropertySheet and modified OnSize() handler to get it working the way I want:

Code:

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void CPropSheetDemo::OnSize(UINT nType, int cx, int cy)
{
        CPropertySheet::OnSize(nType, cx, cy);
       
        // TODO: Add your message handler code here

        // let's resize this property sheet and all embedded property pages
        if ((nType!=SIZE_MINIMIZED) && (cx!=0) && (cy!=0)) {
                CRect rect,rect2;
                CTabCtrl* pTab;
                CPropertyPage* pPage;
                // change size of CTabCtrl
                if (pTab=GetTabControl()) {
                        int iWidthHeight;
                        GetClientRect(&rect);
                        // calculate and set maximal width or height of the tab's bookmarks
                        if (GetWindowLong(pTab->m_hWnd,GWL_STYLE) & TCS_VERTICAL)
                                iWidthHeight=rect.Height()/PROPSHEET_DEMO_PAGES_COUNT;
                        else
                                iWidthHeight=rect.Width()/PROPSHEET_DEMO_PAGES_COUNT;
                        if (iWidthHeight>2) iWidthHeight-=2;
                        pTab->SetMinTabWidth(iWidthHeight);

                        // change tab control size
                        pTab->MoveWindow(&rect,TRUE);

                        // change size of Property Page
                        if (pPage=GetActivePage()) {
                                // top coordinate will probably stay the same
                                rect.left=0;
                                rect.top=0;
                                int n=pTab->GetItemCount();
                                // top-left coordinates will probably stay the same
                                if (GetWindowLong(pTab->m_hWnd,GWL_STYLE) & TCS_VERTICAL) {
                                        for (int i=0;i<n;i++) {
                                                pTab->GetItemRect(i,&rect2);
                                                if (rect.left<rect2.right) rect.left=rect2.right;
                                        }
                                // get the new top coordinate if tab is horizontally oriented
                                } else {
                                        for (int i=0;i<n;i++) {
                                                pTab->GetItemRect(i,&rect2);
                                                if (rect.top<rect2.bottom) rect.top=rect2.bottom;
                                        }
                                }
                                // get new right-bottom coordinates
                                pTab->GetClientRect(&rect2);
                                rect.right=rect2.right;
                                rect.bottom=rect2.bottom;
                                if (rect.right>2) rect.right-=2;
                                if (rect.bottom>2) rect.bottom-=2;
                                if (rect.left+2<rect.right) rect.left+=2;
                                if (rect.top+2<rect.bottom) rect.top+=2;
                                // change the size of tab control
                                pPage->MoveWindow(&rect,FALSE);
                        }
                }
        }
}

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