Building an Class Wizard looking Dialog

[Lost User]

Hi there! I am trying to build a Dialog-based application which is much like the Visual C Class Wizard. I have played around with a CTabCtrl on the dialog box but I haven't had much luck thus far. Can you give me some hint as to how you would create an application like that? Also, I was wondering whether instead of dumping a CTabCtrl on my dialog, I could attach a CPropertySheet to my CDialog?:confused:

[Manfred Ramosch]

If it doesn't bother you that the standard buttons of a property sheet are always there use it. If you do - like I do in my dialog-based-application now - you have to use the CTabCtrl. The difference is that you have to create a dialog for each rider of the tab. The tab itself is just a container. So by selecting the riders of a tab you just call up a user-defined dialog.

• Put a tab (like IDC_TAB1) in your dialog (CMyDialog) with the dialog editor

• Open the Class-Wizard and attach a CTabCtrl-Member-Variable (like MyTabCtrl) to your tab-resource (IDC_TAB1)

• Then you have to tell your tab about the number of riders and their names (with a TC_ITEM structure)

  BOOL CMyDialog::OnInitDialog()
  {
  CDialog::OnInitDialog();

  TC_ITEM TabCtrlItem;
  TabCtrlItem.mask = TCIF_TEXT;

  TabCtrlItem.pszText = "Name of the Rider 1"
  MyTabCtrl.InsertItem(0, &TabCtrlItem);

  TabCtrlItem.pszText = "Name of the Rider 2"
  MyTabCtrl.InsertItem(1, &TabCtrlItem);

  TabCtrlItem.pszText = "Name of the Rider 3"
  MyTabCtrl.InsertItem(2, &TabCtrlItem);
  }

• Derive a dialog-class (like CMyFirstRiderDialog) from CDialog

• You should create another dialog resource (like IDD_MY_FIRST_RIDER) that represents the content of your rider

• In the function void CMyDialog::OnShowWindow(BOOL bShow, UINT nStatus)
  you'll have to create your rider-dialog.

  void CMyDialog::OnShowWindow(BOOL bShow, UINT nStatus)
  {
  CDialog::OnShowWindow(bShow, nStatus)

  if(bShow)
  {
  MyFirstRiderDialog->Create(IDD_MY_FIRST_RIDER, MyTabCtrl.GetActiveWindow());
  MyFirstRiderDialog->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
  }
  }

• In the Message Handler of your TCN_SELCHANGE and TCN_SELCHANGING message of your IDC_TAB1 object
  you have to destroy your MyFirstRiderDialog and create the dialog dedicated to your other tabs.

  void MyDialog::OnSelchangingZone(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult)
  {
  switch(MyTabCtrl.GetCurSelection())
  {
  case 0:
  CMyFirstRiderDialog->DestroyWindow();
  break;

  case 1:
  CMySecondRiderDialog->DestroyWindow();
  break;

  default:
  ASSERT(0);
  break:
  }
  }

  void MyDialog::OnSelchangZone(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult)
  {
  switch(MyTabCtrl.GetCurSelection())
  {
  ca