I am attempting to make a CTabCtrl object inside of another dialog box. It has 3 ''tabs'' and I want to display a different dialog box for each of the three tabs. I was wondering if there was a simple way to do this, none of the MFC examples show this directly. I also was trying to determine if I should use CPropertySheet instead. The MFC examples show how to use that, but it seems like it is used more for its own window instead of inside of another dialog box, which putting this into a dialog box is the result I am looking for. Thanks for any help.

I''m not using MFC, but what you''re describing is pretty easy to implement (There are some code samples about it at the MSDN).
You will need to create the dialog box (CreateDialog(); ) as a child window, then you should get the RECT of the tab control and SetWindowPos() the dialog box to fit it inside the tab control.


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That sounds about right. But I was trying to figure out whther CTabCtrl dialog box had a way to just add another dialog box into each tab autromatically, like how CPropertySheet just has the AddPAge() function, and the rest is taken care of. For now I am assuming my option with CTabCtrl is just just size it on my own, and create a 3 dialog boxes. When a Tab is changed by the user, i just need to hide 1 dialog box and show another. That is fone for me, but I was just making sure that is the simplest way.

If you want stuff automatically done for you, property sheets is the way to go.
But, you can emulate a property sheet using a tab control and having several dialog boxes that act as child windows (Just like you described).
I personally use tab controls for this because I wanted it to have the look of a property sheet, but it also had work on all OS''s (Some features of property sheets only work on 98+/2k+).


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