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WinAPI Tabs

Started by fitfool Nov 22, 2008 at 5:02 PM 2 replies 1.5k views

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Nov 22, 2008 at 5:02 PM

I have created a tab control and attached 2 tabs to it, in WinAPI(c++), as seen here: http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/8990/69941214xa9.jpg As you can see, i have a tab called 'TCP', and a 'UDP' tab, there is also a button in there. My problem is, i can't find out how you attach a button to one of these tabs, i mean, so it's visible under one tab, but not visible under the other. Any clues? thanks

george135

Nov 22, 2008 at 8:24 PM

It's a standard win32 api question.
see on Adv. Win32 api ng comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32

Endurion

Nov 22, 2008 at 11:45 PM

This is something you have to do yourself. There's a notification TCN_SELCHANGE which gets fired via WM_NOTIFY if the user clicks on a tab.

On receiving this event you need to hide/show wanted controls. The common approach is to build a dialog resource (starting hidden, as child) for every tab page and add them into the tab control (calculate the rect via TCM_ADJUSTRECT). On TCN_SELCHANGE hide the current subdialog and show the new active dialog.

fitfool

Nov 23, 2008 at 12:02 AM

Thanks Endurion and george. I was afraid i was going to have to intercept the tab selection message and show wanted controls :/

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