MFC: Practice using tab control

(Jan 19, 2008)

After try using MFC's tab control (CTabCtrl) from http://www.forteach.net/Programming/c/26492.html
and
http://www.ucancode.net/faq/CTabCtrl-VC-SetWindowPos.htm

The first one seems to give more concise and be easier to follow.

There are also some important points I'd like to note:
1. Do not forget to change 'style' of a tab sheet from 'popup' to 'child'. If you do not make such change, the position of a tab sheet may be at the top left corner of the screen.

2. Tab sheet should be set to have no border (Border = none).

3. CTabCtrl must be derived. It seems there is no simpler way for this, although initialization code for our derived class may be very common as used in http://www.forteach.net/Programming/c/26492.html

4. Tab control must have this message map,

ON_NOTIFY_REFLECT(TCN_SELCHANGE, OnSelchange).

Otherwise, changing tab is impossible.

5. As usual before a dialog which has a derived tab control in it can be shown, we need to 'Create' it. Declaration does not mean 'Create' at all.

m_myDialog.Create( IDD_MAIN_DLG );
m_myDialog.ShowWindow( SW_SHOW );

6. Properties for a common tab sheet are shown in the following images:



Private copy: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dggq8h5d_38hbbr8bcb