Re: Adding dialogs as pages to a WTL::CTabCtrl

I'd prefer to avoid having to convert everything to property sheets if possible....


--- In [email protected], "Dick Dievendorff" <dieven@...> wrote:
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> I converted my tabbed dialog application to a property sheet because I
> needed the tabs themselves to be tab stops, which was necessary to have them
> spoken by a screen reader.
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> Before doing that my blind users were having difficulties.  I learned a lot
> working with them!
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> I disabled and hid the property sheet buttons and then expanded the tab
> control within the property sheet to cover over where the buttons used to
> be.
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> Dick
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> addicted2freefall
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [wtl] Adding dialogs as pages to a WTL::CTabCtrl
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> I've created a WTL dialog application, and added a CTabCtrl to the CMainDlg,
> in order to house the main interface categories, which I've implemented as
> borderless, child dialogs.
> 
> I've created the child dialog(s) as having the tab control as the parent
> window:
> 
> m_StreamPage.Create( m_tabCtrl, m_rectTabCtrl );
> m_StreamPage.SetWindowLongW( GWL_STYLE, WS_CHILD );
> m_StreamPage.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
> 
> But I can't seem to position the dialogs after creation time - they always
> appear over the top of the tab controls, and I can't move them down. I call
> this function below to attempt to position the child dialogs, but they never
> move.
> 
> void CMainDlg::SetTabClientRectangle()
> {
> RECT tabRect, itemRect; 
> 
> m_tabCtrl.GetItemRect(0, &itemRect);
> m_tabCtrl.GetClientRect(&tabRect); 
> 
> tabRect.top += itemRect.bottom + 2;
> tabRect.bottom -= 1; 
> 
> m_StreamPage.SetWindowPos(m_tabCtrl.m_hWnd, &tabRect, SWP_SHOWWINDOW); 
> }
> 
> I think I may be failing to remove a window style from the child dialog
> after it's initially created.
> 
> All insights greatly appreciated.
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