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From: Arif Ali Saiyed on 6 Jan 2010 03:06
Hi All,
I am using VS 2008. I wanted to add a checkbox inside a tab
control in a simple Win32 project.
but it's not straight forward it seems.

This how I did it

step 1: Created a Visual C++->Win32->Win32 Project
it created a winows application project....
step 2 : double click RC file of project , went to dialog ...
there is one dialog automatically generated by VS2008..
about dialog...
double clicked it

step 3: increased size of this dilaog ...

step 4 : Clicked Tab control in Toolbox and created a tab on this
about dialog

step 5: clicked checkbox in toolbox and created a check box in visual
boundies of Tab control....
assuming that it will create a check box inside tab
control but it did not....

step 6: Moving tab control shows clearly that checkbox is not inside
it...it's outside tab

step 7 ... tried looking in properties of Tab control , could not
figoure out any property which will do this ...
moreover also could not figure out how to add/delete/edit
tabs...using properties panel of VS2008


Searching over net shows me only MFC and .Net solutions, but could not
find anything related to plain Win32 controls.

even on the msdn i wasn't able to find anything other than this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w149892x.aspx
which is a .Net solution...

I think it's a very basic problem, and I am missing something very
basic ..any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

-Arif
From: Leslie Milburn on 6 Jan 2010 04:10

"Arif Ali Saiyed" <arif.ali.syed(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I think it's a very basic problem, and I am missing something very
> basic ..any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Arif

Its been a long time since I used a tab control but from memory you are
supposed to create a child window for each tab and place the controls on the
particular dialog. Clicking the tab will send a message to your program
telling you which child window is to be displayed.

I think this is correct
Leslie.



From: Arif Ali Saiyed on 6 Jan 2010 05:38

> Its been a long time since I used a tab control but from memory you are
> supposed to create a child window for each tab and place the controls on the
> particular dialog. Clicking the tab will send a message to your program
> telling you which child window is to be displayed.
>
> I think this is correct
> Leslie.

Well does that means,

1) we can not create check box as a child of Tab control
2) can not add/delete Tabs

at design time ( before compilation, execution) using the standard
control editor of VS.NET ( Toolbox, properties editor and the dialog
editor)

VS 2008 IDE should have provided a way to do it design time :(
-Arif
From: Arif Ali Saiyed on 8 Jan 2010 15:11
Hi Leslie,
Thanks a lot for your reply on how to handle this,
I have understood it quite a bit but i think I am first exploring
other ways ( other than pure Win32 programming) to
do the same using Delphi, MFC, .NET etc... .NET Forms based sultions
looks quite good .. it's almost like VB...
exploring them if they can successfullt integrated into my
application...

Thanks for your help...

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