Re: Change Property Sheet Size?

Thanks for all the reply. It is very informative.

I should not put the property sheet need to occupy the whole dialog.
This is just for simplify my question. My main dialog contains other
controls too. (not only the property sheet).

Victor- you are right. I can not call setwindowpos before I create the
propertysheet. Then here is another question, I create the
PropertySheet first then call the setwindowpos, then whenever I call
m_pMainTabs->GetWindowRect, I got the original size of the
propertysheet. I need the changed size so that I can lay out my
controls in the property page?

ALiR- Yes, I need to call The GetTabControl to get the CTabCtrl and
resize it. Now my problem is where should I resize my PropertyPage? I
read the MS article before but I do not need to make the Dialog
resizable, I just want to adjust the dialog size to the max of user
screen size and lay out the property sheet, property pages and
controls properly.

See my changed code below:

This code successfully resize the PropertySheet and its TabCtrl to the
dialog size,

in onInitDialog of PropertyPage

    CRect rcPage;
    CRect rcSheet;

    GetParent()->GetWindowRect(&rcSheet);
    GetWindowRect(&rcPage);

the rcSheet shows the original size of the property sheet.
and the rcPage shows the original size of the property page.

This OnInitDialog of propertyPage get called when I create the
propertysheet, and now I have not resize the property sheet yet, hence
I can not get the right size to layout my controls on the property
page.

I find some examples on CodeGuru and CodeParojects, but none of them
is what I wanted. Maybe somebody can show me links or point out what
should I do?

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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);

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

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

    // Now "initialize" the property sheet window.
    if(!m_pMainTabs->Create(this, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE)){
        delete m_pMainTabs;
        m_pMainTabs = NULL;
        return;
    }
    m_pMainTabs->ModifyStyleEx (0, WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT);
    m_pMainTabs->ModifyStyle( 0, WS_TABSTOP );

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

    m_pMainTabs->GetWindowRect(&rcSheet);
    ScreenToClient(&rcSheet);

    m_pMainTabs->GetTabControl()->SetWindowPos( NULL, rcSheet.left,
rcSheet.top, rcSheet.Width(), rcSheet.Height(),
    SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE );

    m_pMainTabs->SetActivePage(m_pMyPage1);

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