Adding a Control to the Property Sheet

Step 1: Derive your own class from CPropertySheet

Step 2: Add member variable

public:
	CEdit m_edit;

Step 3: Create the edit control in OnInitDialog

The property sheet is first resized to accommodate the new edit control. The edit control is then created at the desired location. The WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE gives it a 3-D look. The edit control is created with a different font than used by other control. We fix this by a call to SetFont() and set the font to be the same as the property sheet.

The text value in the edit control can be set or retrieved using the m_edit object.

BOOL CMyPropSheet::OnInitDialog()
{
	BOOL bResult = CPropertySheet::OnInitDialog();

	CRect rectWnd;
	GetWindowRect(rectWnd);
	SetWindowPos(NULL, 0, 0,
		rectWnd.Width() + 100,
		rectWnd.Height(),
		SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE);

	m_edit.CreateEx( WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, _T("EDIT"), NULL,
				WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP | WS_BORDER, 
				rectWnd.Width(), 20, 80, 24, m_hWnd, 0, 0 );

	m_edit.SetFont( GetFont() );
	
	CenterWindow();
	return bResult;
}