Easiest way to create tabs

[victor7]

The project I'm working on has a window split into two frames. the left frame has buttons which then display different forms on the right frame. So instead of having buttons I want to be able to switch between the pages using tabs. The pages that are displayed on the right frame are of type CFormView. What would be a simple implementation? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

You might want to look into "PropertySheet" ..... there are numerous examples I found online "Piperopoulos Panagiotis"

here's one by


#include <afxwin.h>
#include <afxdlgs.h>
#include &quot;resource.h&quot;

class CSheet : public CPropertySheet
{
public:

CPropertyPage Page1;
CPropertyPage Page2;
CPropertyPage Page3;
CPropertyPage Page4;
CMenu Menu;

CSheet() : CPropertySheet( &quot;CPropertySheet By Piperopoulos Panagiotis&quot; )
{
Page1.Construct( IDD_VIEW1 );
Page2.Construct( IDD_VIEW2 );
Page3.Construct( IDD_VIEW3 );
Page4.Construct( IDD_VIEW4 );
AddPage( &Page1 );
AddPage( &Page2 );
AddPage( &Page3 );
AddPage( &Page4 );
}

~CSheet(){}

BOOL OnInitDialog( )
{
CPropertySheet::OnInitDialog();

GetDlgItem( IDOK )->ShowWindow( SW_HIDE );
GetDlgItem( IDCANCEL )->ShowWindow( SW_HIDE );
GetDlgItem( ID_APPLY_NOW )->ShowWindow( SW_HIDE );

Menu.LoadMenu( IDR_MENU );
SetMenu( &Menu );

// NEW LINES START

// Load the app icons
SetIcon( AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon( IDI_ICONS ), FALSE );
SetIcon( AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon( IDI_ICONB ), TRUE );

// add the minimize button to the window
::SetWindowLong( m_hWnd, GWL_STYLE, GetStyle() | WS_MINIMIZEBOX );

// add the minimize command to the system menu
GetSystemMenu( FALSE )->InsertMenu( -1, MF_BYPOSITION | MF_STRING,
SC_ICON, &quot;Minimize&quot; );

// activate the new sysmenu
DrawMenuBar();

// NEW LINES END

return TRUE;
}

void DisplayPage( int Page )
{
switch( Page )
{
case IDM_1 :
SetActivePage( &Page1 );
break;
case IDM_2 :
SetActivePage( &Page2 );
break;
case IDM_3 :
SetActivePage( &Page3 );
break;
case IDM_4 :
SetActivePage( &Page4 );
break;
}
}

DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
};

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP( CSheet, CPropertySheet )
ON_COMMAND_RANGE( IDM_1, IDM_4, DisplayPage )
END_MESSAGE_MAP()


class TheApp : public CWinApp
{
public:

TheApp(){}
~TheApp(){}

virtual BOOL InitInstance()
{
#ifdef _AFXDLL
Enable3dControls();
#else
Enable3dControlsStatic();
#endif

CSheet ps;
m_pMainWnd = &ps;
ps.DoModal();

return FALSE;
}
};

TheApp MyApp;

 

[victor7]

Thank you so much. I've been stuck on this for a while and kind of put it off to the side to work on some other stuff. Hopefully it'll work for me.