Property Pages vs. Regular Dialogs

Scott Meyers <smeyers-Q9ZaqOuDrMJWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Tue, 05 Aug 2003 19:47:34 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.keyholes
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At 09:14 AM 7/29/2003, Frank Paris wrote:
>> From: Scott Meyers [mailto:smeyers-Q9ZaqOuDrMJWk0Htik3J/[email protected]] 
>> keyholes that do not strike you as gratuitous?  For purposes 
>> of this discussion, let us assume that dynamically sizeable 
>> listboxes are easy to implement.
>
>It depends on where they are. If they're in a Windows property page or
>wizard, they are not easily resized (I know of no way to do it, assuming
>they are already filling up all of the available real estate on the
>property page (which by Bill Gates' design is fixed in size). If they
>are in a regular dialog, resizing them is as easy as dynamically moving
>around all the other controls on the dialog as the user resizes the
>dialog.

Color me ignorant.  What is a property page, and how does it differ from a
regular dialog?

Scott