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The rich edit control has tab stops set every half inch by default. The tab stop is a paragraph attribute and you can change it by changing the paragraph format. The tab stop setting applies to the current selection, and if nothing is selected, the format will apply to the new text inserted at that […]

I was recently asked to write an application for a company that wanted their logo on every single window in the program. As the application grew there became less and less space for a company bitmap logo within some of the tabbed-dialog boxes. Due to this I decided to see if I could place the […]

MFC provides three property page classes – CFontPropPage, CColorPropPage and CPicturePropPage. Unfortunately, these can be used with OLE Automation only. There’s also been some discussion on the Usenet news groups about using the ‘Choose Font’ dialog as a property page. This too is a dead end. You can’t use the ‘Choose Font’ dialog within a […]

Download the source This code is written to fix the bug in CPropertySheet::DoModal() or CPropertySheet::Create() as described in MSKB article ID: Q158552. The description of the bug: (This bug is present for comctl32.dll version

Its unfortunate that the tab control or the property sheet do not support the shortcut keys. It’s fortunate, however, that it is so easy to implement. Step 1: Assign shortcut keys to property pages Open up each of the property page resource in the resource editor and update the caption by adding an ampersand before […]

The tab control is one of the common controls that support using an image list to specify an image for each item in the tab control. Since the property sheet uses a tab control, adding images to the tab lables is fairly simple. Step 1: Create a bitmap resource with the images You can also […]

Download Source Code and Example In reaction about my article ‘Creating a full application using the CPropertySheet’ someone mailed me and asked to add an icon and a minimize button to the PropertySheet window. Adding the icon is the easy task. Adding the minimize button was the difficult part, it needs very litle code, but […]

I read Jeremy Davis’s article named "Placing a bitmap in the PropertySheet button area" and liked the idea a lot, but when I tried to implement it I found one small thing, bitmap can not change color if background color is not (for example) gray. So I made my own program which displays 3d text […]

How to override the default buttons on a properysheet: What you need to do is override the OnSetDefID in CPropertySheet. So you would add the following to your message map in your derived class: ON_MESSAGE(DM_SETDEFID, OnSetDefID) And declare OnSetDefID which would look something like this: //CMG: Override the CPropertySheet default button and replace with own. […]

Hello Windows Programmers. I discovered recently that it is possible to create a full application using the CPropertySheet as the class for the main window of the application. If you read the source of the small demo you will understand better what i mean. I created a new class named CSheet that has CPropertySheet as […]

This topic was contributed by Asaf Levy. Form views (CFormView) can do almost anything you want: you can easily shape and modify it, process its control’s messages, and communicate with the document. It’s like creating a very important dialog box. Property sheet (CPropertySheet) is also a very convinient and simple way to gather and display […]

The size and position of a property page is taken care of by the property sheet. The property sheet provides enough space to accommodate the largest property page. In spite of this, sometime we still need to move or resize the property page. One situation I can think of where we need to move the […]