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Although you can resize the property sheet and place other controls in it, sometimes its just easier to create a dialog with all the controls in place and then create a property sheet inside the dialog. You can layout the controls at design time and also the property sheet need not be on the left […]

Each property page has its own set of controls. The only control that they share are the standard button in the property sheet itself. If you want to add an edit control, a preview button or any other control, you have to do it at run time. The code below shows you how to add […]

Using a Property Sheet as a ‘view’ inside a child frame window turns out to be quite simple. Derive your own class from CPropertySheet. Override virtual OnInitDialog as follows. BOOL CModelessPpsh::OnInitDialog() { m_bModeless = FALSE; BOOL bResult = CPropertySheet::OnInitDialog(); m_bModeless = TRUE; return bResult; } This will do the trick, fooling CPropertySheet Class into thinking […]

I have an SDI application, where the main view consists of a CTabCtrl. In order to avoid handling the page changes myself, I decided to try to use a CPropertySheet instead. This gave me some problems handling resizing of the property sheet, when the user resizes the view. Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q143291 gave a […]

I made these two classes to add an often used feature to the property sheets/pages provided by the MFC. The new classes allow you, to easily skip certain pages when viewing the tabbed dialog. This is very usefull for installation or assistent wizards. You can now also access the the property sheet from every page […]

If you have many property pages then the property sheet ends up showing multiple rows of tabs. Sometimes, the addition space required for the tabs is unacceptable. We can force the property sheet to use a single row of tabs by calling the CPropertySheet:: EnableStackedTabs(FALSE) before calling the DoModal() function. Propsheet.EnableStackedTabs(FALSE); Alternatively, the call to […]

The labels used by the tab control inside the property sheet is taken from the captions of the property pages. To change this label at runtime, we have to first get a pointer to the tab control object and call its SetItem() function. The following code changes the label of the first tab. CString sCaption […]

Your method for moving _standard_ buttons is fine – if they are all that needs moving (eg. you forgot ID_HELP). But this is not much good if you’ve added your own controls to the property sheet and need to move them too. (for example, I have a couple of different groups of pages that I […]

This class provides enabling and disabling of items in a tab control. The main purpose of the class is to provide this functionality for property sheets, but I think it may work for tab controls in general (I have not tested this). Anyway, to use the class, just include the source and header file into […]

We can change the font used by the tab control to draw the labels by using the SetFont() function in the CWnd class. The code given below is very simple and does not bother with resizing the tab control or the property sheet. This works fine for fonts that are smaller than the font being […]

In the previous topic we discussed how to remove the Apply button. The technique covered here is applicable to any control as long as we know its control ID. When we hide a control using the ShowWindow() function all the other controls remain whereever they were. If the gap gives the property sheet an unappealing […]

The property sheet is not resizable by the user. That is, the user cannot drag an edge of the property sheet dialog to resize it. However, resizing the property sheet programmatically is the same as resizing any other window – get the window dimension by calling GetWindowRect(), modify the dimension and then resize the window […]