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Below is also a tab control, that you can use it with your code.

CTabCtrlSSL - An easy to use, flexible extended tab control
By Derek Lakin. 

Introduction

It's amazing what a bit of illness can do for your productivity at home! I've been ill for the last couple of days and here it is, yet another extended control. This time my target is the tab control. It seems to me that the tab control is a bit out of fashion these days with people preferring property sheets and pages instead. Well, I tried to use them and couldn't get the result I wanted. I needed some controls above the tabbed area (a bit like the demo, but a few more controls) and I just couldn't get that with property sheets and pages.

The problem with the standard tab control is that involves loads of effort to get pages in to the tab control. A quick in the MSDN located an example by Jeff Prosise that implemented a tabbed view, CTabView, allowing the tabs to be specified as dialog resources. Well, when it comes to code I'm a bit like I was as a ten year old with watches: I've got to fiddle about with it and see how it works and wonder how it could be better.

The first problem was that Jeff's solution was for a view class and I needed a control. The transition here is fairly easy as the view just wraps up the control. The second issue I had was that it didn't give much flexibility over what you could do with the tab pages. "How do I handle events within the page?" I ucancode.neted myself. The answer was to allow the client to inherit from the tab page class and allow tab page objects to be added to the control and not just dialog resources.

Why is that solutions always present a new problem? By allowing this approach I then introduced a tricky situation with releasing the tab pages. Internally the tab control was creating the tab pages on the heap and maintaining a list of the pages that had been added. When the control was destroyed delete was called on each page in turn. This obviously causes problems if the pages are created outside of the tab control and passed in to it. In this case the tab control would destroy the pages created externally and then the parent dialog would try and do the same!!

After a lengthy discussion in the Visual C++ forum with Tomasz Sowinski we came up with the answer. The tab control has a protected function for adding pages to the control and the public functions call this one. What is actually passed in to the protected function is a structure containing a pointer to a tab page and a flag indicating if the tab control should destroy it. This way if the tab page is passed in then the flag is set to false, but if the tab control creates the tab page the flag is set to true. At destruction time only the pages with the flag set are destroyed by the tab control. All others are someone else's problem.

How to use it

1. Create a dialog resource and class for the dialog that you want a tab control on.

2. Add a tab control from the toolbox to the dialog resource.

3. Create a member variable for the tab control and change it's type to CTabCtrlSSL.

4. In the OnInitDialog handler for your dialog class create and add any pages you want on the tab control.

BOOL CCTabCtrlSSL_demoDlg::OnInitDialog () {
	CDialog::OnInitDialog ();
   
   // Setup the tab control
   int nPageID = 0;
   m_tabDemo.AddSSLPage (_T("Basic Tab"), nPageID++, IDD_TAB_BASIC);
   m_advancedTab.Create (IDD_TAB_ADVANCED, this);
   m_tabDemo.AddSSLPage (_T("Advanced Page"), nPageID++, &m_advancedTab);
   m_aboutTab.Create (IDD_TAB_ABOUT, this);
   m_tabDemo.AddSSLPage (_T("About"), nPageID++, &m_aboutTab);
   
   return TRUE; // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control
}

As you can see from the above code sample (taken from the demo), to add a basic tab call AddSSLPage and just pass it the resource ID of the dialog resource. For an advanced tab, create the dialog resource setting the window style to Child and the border style to none, then call AddSSLPage and pass in a pointer to your CTabPageSSL-derived object.

To continue the style I started with CButtonSSL, here is the documentation for the classes:

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CTabCtrlSSL

A "tab control" is analogous to the dividers in a notebook or the labels in a file cabinet. By using a tab control, an application can define multiple pages for the same area of a window or dialog box. Each page consists of a set of information or a group of controls that the application displays when the user selects the corresponding tab. CTabCtrlSSL extends the standard tab control by providing an interface for adding tabs to the control that are defined as dialog resources. These tabs are defined internally as CTabPageSSL objects. There is also an interface for adding objects of this type to the tab control allowing custom objects to be defined by inheriting from CTabPageSSL.

Any tab pages that are created by CTabCtrlSSL (those where the tab is added by passing in a dialog resource id) are destroyed by CTabCtrlSSL. It is the clients responsibility to destroy any CTabPageSSL-derived objects that are passed in to CTabCtrlSSL.

#include "TabCtrlSSL.h"

Overview | Class members | Known problems

Class members

Construction

Page functions

Overridables

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CTabCtrlSSL::CTabCtrlSSL

CTabCtrlSSL ();

Remarks

Constructs a CTabCtrlSSL object.

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CTabCtrlSSL::AddSSLPage

int AddSSLPage (LPCTSTR pszTitle, int nPageID, int nTemplateID);

int AddSSLPage (LPCTSTR pszTitle, int nPageID, LPCTSTR pszTemplateName);

int AddSSLPage (LPCTSTR pszTitle, int nPageID, CTabPageSSL* pTabPage);

Return Value

Zero-based index of the new tab if successful; otherwise –1.

Parameters

pszTitle

Address of a null-terminated string that contains the tab text.

nPageID

The zero-based numeric ID for referring to the page to be added.

nTemplateID

Specifies the tab page’s resource ID.

pszTemplateName

Points to a null-terminated string that contains the name of the dialog resource to load.

pTabPage

Points to the CTabPageSSL object to be added.

Remarks

Call this function to insert a new tab in an existing tab control.

Overview | Class members | Known problems

See Also CTabCtrlSSL::RemoveSSLPage, CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLPage

CTabCtrlSSL::RemoveSSLPage

BOOL RemoveSSLPage (int nIndex);

Return Value

Nonzero if successful; otherwise 0.

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based value of the item to delete.

Remarks

Call this function to remove the specified item from a tab control.

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See Also CTabCtrlSSL::AddSSLPage, CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLPage

CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLPageCount

int GetSSLPageCount ();

Return Value

Number of items in the tab control.

Remarks

Call this function to retrieve the number of tabs in the tab control.

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CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLPageTitle

BOOL GetSSLPageTitle (int nIndex, CString& strTitle);

Return Value

Nonzero if successful; otherwise 0.

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based value of the relevant tab page.

strTitle

A CString reference to receive the title of the tab page.

Remarks

Call this function to retrieve the title of the specified item in a tab control.

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See Also CTabCtrlSSL::SetSSLPageTitle

CTabCtrlSSL::SetSSLPageTitle

BOOL SetSSLPageTitle (int nIndex, LPCTSTR pszTitle);

Return Value

Nonzero if successful; otherwise 0.

Parameters

nIndex
Zero-based value of the relevant tab page.

pszTitle

Points to a null-terminated string that contains the title to set for the specified tab page.

Remarks

Call this function to set the title of the specified item in a tab control.

Overview | Class members | Known problems

See Also CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLPageTitle

CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLPageID

int GetSSLPageID (int nIndex);

Return Value

Zero-based page identifier if successful; otherwise -1.

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based index of the relevant tab page.

Remarks

Call this function to retrieve the page identifier as specified when the tab was added of the specified item in a tab control. The page identifier may also be altered with the SetSSLPageID function.

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See Also CTabCtrlSSL::SetSSLPageID

CTabCtrlSSL::SetSSLPageID

int SetSSLPageID (int nIndex, int nPageID);

Return Value

The previous zero-based page identifier if successful; otherwise -1.

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based index of the relevant tab page.

nPageID

The new zero-based page identifier to be set.

Remarks

Call this function to alter the page identifier for a specified tab page.

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See Also CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLPageID

CTabCtrlSSL::ActivateSSLPage

BOOL ActivateSSLPage (int nIndex);

Return Value

Nonzero if successful; otherwise 0.

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based index of the tab page to activate.

Remarks

Call this function to change the active tab.

Overview | Class members | Known problems

See Also CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLActivePage

CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLActivePage

int GetSSLACtivePage ();

Return Value

Zero-based index of the selected tab if successful or –1 if no tab is selected.

Remarks

Call this function to retrieve the currently selected tab in a tab control.

See Also CTabCtrlSSL::ActivateSSLPage

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CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLPage

CWnd* GetSSLPage (int nIndex);

Return Value

A pointer to the requested tab page if successful; otherwise NULL.

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based index of the tab page to get.

Remarks

Call this function to get a specific tab in the tab control.

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CTabCtrlSSL::GetSSLPageIndex

int GetSSLPageIndex (int nPageID);

Return Value

Zero-based index of the specified tab if successful; otherwise -1.

Parameters

nPageID

Zero-based page identifier of the relevant tab page.

Remarks

Call this function to retrieve the zero-based index of a tab page in the tab control.

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CTabCtrlSSL::OnInitPage

BOOL OnInitPage (int nIndex, int nPageID);

Return Value

Nonzero if successful; otherwise 0.

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based index of the tab page being initialized.

nPageID

Zero-based page identifier of the page being initialized.

Remarks

Override in derived class to initialize pages.

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CTabCtrlSSL::OnActivatePage

void OnActivatePage (int nIndex, int nPageID);

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based index of the tab page being activated.

nPageID

Zero-based page identifier of the page being activated.

Remarks

Override in derived class to respond to page activations.

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CTabCtrlSSL::OnDeactivatePage

void OnDeactivatePage (int nIndex, int nPageID);

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based index of the tab page being activated.

nPageID

Zero-based page identifier of the page being activated.

Remarks

Override in derived class to respond to page deactivations.

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CTabCtrlSSL::OnDestroyPage

void OnDestroyPage (int nIndex, int nPageID);

Parameters

nIndex

Zero-based index of the tab page being activated.

nPageID

Zero-based page identifier of the page being activated.

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