Creating/Adding Tabs to a Tab Control

[monrobot13]

I'm looking to make a dialog based program that utilizes a tab control and I'm looking for the best way to go about this. Currently I have the main dialog with the tab control on it and I've created two child dialogs to add to the tab pages. This is how I add the pages, and switch between them in my code. To me it doesn't look like the best way to do things so I was hoping to get some ideas on a better way to go about this. Here is the code:

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

m\_tabData.InsertItem (0, " Media Sales ");
m\_tabData.InsertItem (1, " Price Information ");
VERIFY (m\_dlgSales.Create (IDD\_MEDIASALES\_DIALOG, this));
VERIFY (m\_dlgPrice.Create (IDD\_PRICE\_DIALOG, this));
CRect rectCtrl;
GetDlgItem (FRAME\_TAB\_DIALOG)->GetWindowRect (&rectCtrl);
ScreenToClient (&rectCtrl);
m\_dlgSales.MoveWindow (&rectCtrl, TRUE);
m\_dlgSales.BringWindowToTop ();
m\_dlgSales.ShowWindow (SW\_SHOW);
m\_dlgSales.SetFocus ();
	
return FALSE;

}

void CDataManDlg::OnTabSelected(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult)
{
// Set a new current tab.
int nCurrentTab = m_tabData.GetCurSel ();

// Hide all the tabs.
m\_dlgSales.ShowWindow (SW\_HIDE);
m\_dlgPrice.ShowWindow (SW\_HIDE);

// Get window of visible tabbed dialog.
CWnd\* pWndCurrentTab = NULL;
switch (nCurrentTab) {
case 0:
	pWndCurrentTab = &m\_dlgSales;
	break;
case 1:
	pWndCurrentTab = &m\_dlgPrice;
	break;
default:
	ASSERT (FALSE);
	break;
}

// Resize and show the dialog
if (pWndCurrentTab != NULL) {
	CRect rectCtrl;
	GetDlgItem (FRAME\_TAB\_DIALOG)->GetWindowRect (&rectCtrl);
	ScreenToClient (&rectCtrl);

	pWndCurrentTab->MoveWindow (&rectCtrl, TRUE);
    pWndCurrentTab->ShowWindow (SW\_SHOW);
	pWndCurrentTab->Invalidate ();
	pWndCurrentTab->UpdateWindow ();
	pWndCurrentTab->BringWindowToTop ();
	pWndCurrentTab->SetFocus ();
}

\*pResult = 0;

}

One thing that really bothers me is I have to have a staic control on the form that is sized to the tab control - minus the tabs (FRAME_TAB_DIALOG) in order to have the child dialogs sized correctly. This doesn't seem like a good way to do things. Any help and/or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - monrobot13

[Carlos Antollini]

Yesterday, was a question like that, but a guy had a lot of control and he couldn't manage all of them... I said him the better is using CPropertieSheet class with CPropertiePage.... Regards Carlos Antollini Do you know piFive[^] ?

[monrobot13]

That's an idea. Thanks. - monrobot13