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Hello, I’d like to add a tab container to the CChildFrame where each tab is a view to a specifit CView derived class (doc/view). I can’t figure out yet the appropiate way to do that.

I sent an email to Suppor with extra info (and screenshots). Your help is appreciate.

PROF-UIS 2.52 (commercial version)
VS 2005

Thanks
Alfonso

Just I solved this problem, I looked ’closer’ the example MDI_DynamicInnerOuterBars, and I am OK... My next step is implement the Dynamic Bar, look nice, but not easier to implement.

Cheers,
Alfonso

We think there is no point to use dynamic control bars in your case. There is a much easier way to implement your tabbed interface. Just create your tab page container as a child window of the child frame. You need to make a choice between Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003/2005 tabs (CExtTabPageContainerWnd), flat Excel-like tabs (CExtTabPageContainerFlatWnd), colored One Note tabs (CExtTabPageContainerOneNoteWnd) and Whidbey (CExtTabPageContainerWhidbeyWnd) tabs. Then add your views to the tab page <code>container with the <code>CExtTabPageContainerWnd::PageInsert() method. Please note that the primary view is a view with ID equal to AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST:

CExtTabPageContainerWnd m_wndTabPageContainer;
...
 
int CChildFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct) 
{
            if (CMDIChildWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
                        return -1;
 
            m_wndTabPageContainer.Create( 
                        this, 
                        CRect(0,0,0,0),
                        AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST
                        );
 
            // insert tab pages (views) here
 
        return 0;
}

Please also take a look at these examples of tabbed interfaces:

• ProfStudio sample: Whidbey MDI tab control (CExtTabMdiWhidbeyWnd) in the CMainFrame class


• DRAWCLI sample: One Note MDI tab control (CExtTabMdiOneNoteWnd) in the CMainFrame class


• FormEditor sample: Visual Studio .NET-like MDI tab control (CExtTabMdiWnd) in the CMainFrame class


• TabPages sample: Several flat tab page containers (CExtTabPageContainerFlatWnd) are used as child windows of resizable control bars


• SimpleGrids sample: Flat tab page container is also used as a child view (i.e. the CExtTabPageContainerFlatWnd class is a base class of CChildView)

The latter seems to be what you really need but the MDI environment.

Addition Info:
Solution was originally implemented using TVisualObject, TVisualFramework (with no splitter) http://www.codetools.com/dialog/visualfx.asp (take a look the link)

Thanks