Need info about CTabCtrl

[BobbyB]

I've tried to use the CTabCtrl class just to found that it is unacceptable... I've also tried some derived class created by some others just to found that they also are lacking...

If you can give me some advices on "your" best way to use this control it would be of great help.

thanks.

 

[sflam]

CTabCtrl wrap around the Windows tab control which is not a container like the one in Access. In Access, the tab control is a container that can use to contain other controls. In Windows programming, you have to provide all these container functionality in the code.

For complex design, you might want to use property sheet/property page instead.

Shyan

 

[TGM]

Hi

Well, it depends what you mean by unacceptable ...

It is in fact quite powerfull and you can do a lot of things with it.

In fact, You can add dialog box for every tab very easily.

Like this:

First egt a pointer to the TabCtrl

CWnd* pWndTab = ( CWnd*) GetDlgItem( IDC_DATA_TAB);

Then add the dialogboxes:

// Create Child Dialog Boxes

m_LogDlg.Create( IDD_LOG_DLG, pWndTab);
m_NewLogDlg.Create( IDD_NEW_LOG_DLG, pWndTab);

Then insert Item in TabCtrl:

TCITEM tc = {0};

tc.cchTextMax = strlen( "Log"
tc.pszText = "Log";
tc. mask = TCIF_TEXT | TCIF_PARAM;
tc.lParam= &m_LogDlg;
InsertItem( 0, &tc);

Then you handle the OnSelChange to show/hide the dialog boxes:
I assumed that you maintain a member called m_nCurSel that stored the current tab index ...

// Hide Current Selection

TCITEM tc;
tc.mask = TCIF_PARAM ;
GetItem( m_nCurSel, &tc);
CWnd* pWnd = (CWnd*) tc.lParam;
HWND hwnd = pWnd->GetSafeHwnd();
::ShowWindow( hwnd, SW_HIDE);

m_nPrevSel = m_nCurSel;

// Get Current Selection
m_nCurSel = GetCurSel();

// Get Pointer to Window
tc.mask = TCIF_PARAM ;
GetItem( m_nCurSel, &tc);
pWnd = (CWnd*) tc.lParam;
hwnd = pWnd->GetSafeHwnd();
::ShowWindow( hwnd, SW_SHOW);

Here you see the interest of storing the address of the dialogbox in the param member of the TCITEM structure.

It's just a small exemple that show that you can do almost what you want. You can also enable/disable the tas, change the background color, the text color, ...

Good luck

Thierry
EMail: Thierry.Marneffe@swing.be