🚀 go-pugleaf

Sounds like you need to read up on how TabControls and dialogs work.  You
most certainly can have dialogs embedded into the TabControl.  The
TabControl only has one display area.  When you create your dialogs using
CreateWindow/Ex(), simply set the TabControl HWND as the parent window, set
the WS_CHILD style, and make the dialogs initialy hidden (if you are going
to create them all at once, that is).  Then, when the appropriate tab is
selected by the user, use the TCM_ADJUSTRECT message to find out the
dimensions of the display area, and then position/size the dialog it
accordingly and show it normally.  Because the TabControl is set as the
parent for the dialog, the dialog will display inside of it.  Then, when the
user changes tabs, hide/destroy the current dialog and show the new one as
appropriate.

If you look in the Win32 API documentation for TabControls, there are code
examples included.  Specifically, have a look at the "Creating a Tabbed
Dialog Box" example.  Which, incidently, does include a note about "In many
cases, you can implement multiple-page dialog boxes more easily by using
property sheets."


Gambit

"Gary Setter" <setterg@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:3e6a26f6@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I've convinced myself that defining child controls the represent
> the child dialogs is not built into the Win32 API. Was I looking
> for something this is impossible? Is such a thing not useful?