Re: Change Property Sheet Size?

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:00:07 -0600
Message-ID:
<Z_nbl.13155$yr3.13120@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>
You will have to resize the PropretyPages and the tab control, otherwise the
PropertySheet will resize but the tab inside of it will stay the same size.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300606

You said that you want to resize the propretysheet to take up the entire
main dialog. Why aren't you using the property sheet as your main dialog?

AliR.

"rockdale" <rockdale.green@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:84864941-4fc7-4692-bf67-938a70e16b92@v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...

Hi, all:

My MFC application is Dialog based and I need to adjust the dialog
size based on user's screen resolution. (which works fine). I have a
property sheet with 2 property pages on my dialog. I tried to adjust
the property sheet size when the dialog size adjusted, basically just
expand the property sheet to occupy the whole dialog, but I could not
have it done. Following is my code:

/*
CMyPage1, CMyPage2 are classes derived from CPropertyPage
*/

CPropertySheet* m_pMainTabs;
CPropertyPage* m_pMyPage1;
CPropertyPage* m_pMyPage2;

 BOOL CMyDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
CDialog::OnInitDialog();
//resize window to maximum screen size
CSize screenSize;
screenSize.cx = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);
screenSize.cy = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);
MoveWindow(0,0, screenSize.cx, screenSize.cy);

       //create property sheet and pages
       m_pMyPage1 = new CMyPage1();
m_pMyPage2 = new CMyPage2();

m_pMainTabs = new CPropertySheet;

//Resize PropertySheet before add pages
CRect rcDlg, rcSheet;
GetWindowRect(&rcDlg);
ScreenToClient( &rcDlg );

m_pMainTabs->SetWindowPos( NULL, rcDlg.left, rcDlg.top, rcDlg.Width()
+100, rcDlg.Height()+100,
SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE );

m_pMainTabs->AddPage(m_pMyPage1);
m_pMainTabs->AddPage(m_pMyPage2);

m_pMainTabs->Create(this, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE);
m_pMainTabs->ModifyStyleEx (0, WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT);
m_pMainTabs->ModifyStyle( 0, WS_TABSTOP );

       m_pMainTabs->SetActivePage(m_pMyPage1);
}

thanks in advance
-rockdale

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