Property Sheet Pages vs Tab Control w/ Dialogs

[Intel_C_Intel]

Windows newbie here:

Is itpossibleto use property sheet pages with Visual Fortran ?

Can anyone share the love with some guidance ? samples ?

This question arises from having a tabbed dialog with four tabs &

the same controls on each tab to gather very similar input from the

user.

Thanks to all.

[Jugoslav_Dujic]

Well, it is possible, but I'm not aware of any samples. You will have to use pure Win32 for that, though -- no DFLOGM. Iused to study the docs, so it's not terribly hard -- depends on how much you are familiar with Win32 dialog handling in general (i.e. how much of a newbie you are :smileyhappy:). Platform SDKUser Interface ServicesWindows common ControlsProperty Sheets chapter describes property sheets and has some code snippets (in C). Now,

Onthe other hand, there are samples with tabbed dialogs using DFLOGM-- see SHOWFONT in SamplesDialog. I don't think there are any problems even if all your child dialogs are identical -- you can use the same dialog template (e.g. IDD_CHILDDLG1) for all n dialogs if you wish -- you only should launch appropriate number of child dialogs via DlgModeless.

The end result won't be much differentusing both methods. (Property sheets additionally offer Ctrl+Tab processing, but one can live without it).

In any case, take care to assign "Child", "Control", "Control parent", "No border", and "No caption"styles to child dialogs -- it's required in both methods.

HTH

Jugoslav