Re: Change Property Sheet Size?

If I was doing this, then I would not use a PropertySheet. I would simply
put a tab control in my dialog and add the dialogs myself, and then switch
between them. (Basically what a propertysheet does for you).

This way you have full control over when the dialogs get created, and at
what size they get created. That way you won't have to worry about catching
OnSize and changing things there. Although there is no way to specifiy a
size for a dialog when it is being created, you can create the dialog, and
then set its size, and then call a method in it to create its controls.

This is very simply to implement, you would have have this done, in the same
amount of time you have spent looking for the solution to the PropertySheet
problem.

The only trick here is to pass the tab control on your dialog as the parent
of the child dialogs that will be in the tab, and for placement of the
dialog you can use CTabCtrl::AdjustRect method to find the inside area of
the tab for placing your dialogs.

   CRect Rect;
   m_Tab.GetClientRect(&Rect);
   m_Tab.AdjustRect(FALSE,&Rect);
   m_Dlg1.SetWindowPos(NULL,Rect.left,Rect.top,Rect.Width(),Rect.Height(),SWP_NOZORDER);
   m_Dlg2.SetWindowPos(NULL,Rect.left,Rect.top,Rect.Width(),Rect.Height(),SWP_NOZORDER);
   m_Dlg1.CreateControls();
   m_Dlg2.CreateControls();

   m_Dlg1.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

And then catch the TCN_SELCHANGE message from the tab control, and hide the
current dialog (if not the same as newly selected dialog), and show the
newly selected tab's dialog.

AliR.

"rockdale" <rockdale.green@gmail.com> wrote in message
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AliR, Thanks, I got your point.

But I do not think I can use the OnSize event.

A little bit background for what I am trying to achieve, (should write
this in the first post, sorry)

On my propertyPage, I need to dynamic create a matrix of buttons and
other controls (CList, More buttons, CEdit..etc), I need to calculate
how many buttons I need to create based on the screen size, and then
layout other controls properly, all these are working already.

So in my ideal world, I should be able to:

1. In InitDialog the main Dialog and Resize the Dialog to screen.
2. In InitDialog of the main Dialog Create the PropertySheet and
resize the sheet to the Dialog size.
3. In InitDialog of the PropertyPage, get the PropertySheet size and
adjust Property Page size, based on the size of peroperty page,
calculate number of buttons I need to create, create buttons and
controls and layout them properly based on the property page size.

And from what I experienced, since I can not Resize the property sheet
before I actually create(instancialize) it, the propertyPage get
created(InitDialog get called) in this process, when I get to where I
need the size of the proprerty page to calculate button bumber and
layout them, I get the ORIGINAL size since I have not resize the
property sheet yet.

Any more suggestion? Or I did it totally wrong?

Thanks again
-Rockdale

On Jan 15, 10:34 am, "AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <A...@online.nospam> wrote: