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Hello,
I have an MDI application. My view class is derived from CFormView. I would like to embed a tab control / container in my view class and create multiple tabbed views from there. I looked into your existing examples and I did not find any. Do you have such example readily available? How do I go about adding a tab control / container to my CFormView class?

Thanks you in advance.

If you have the CFormView class, then you should have some dialog resource as well, which means you can put a tab page container control onto it. You can see how it is done in the ProfUIS_Controls sample (the Tab Containers page).

Following the exmaple in the ProfUIS_Controls sample, I added class CMyTabPageContainerWndFlat : public CExtTabPageContainerFlatWnd into my view class which is derived from CFormView. Then OnCreate I have this code

m_wndTabPageContainerFlat.Create(this, CRect( 0, 0, 0, 0 ), ID_TABCTRL);

HICON hIcon = (HICON)::LoadImage(
AfxGetResourceHandle(),
        MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MAINFRAME),
        IMAGE_ICON,
        16, 16, 0
        );
    

if( !m_wndColorCtrl0.Create(
        _T("BUTTON"),
        _T(""),
        WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE,
        CRect(0,0,0,0),
        &m_wndTabPageContainerFlat,
        UINT(IDC_STATIC)))
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create m_wndColorCtrl0\n");
        return -1;        // fail to create
    }

InitEditCtrl(&m_wndEditCtrl0, &m_wndTabPageContainerFlat);
VERIFY( m_wndTabPageContainerFlat.PageInsert( &m_wndColorCtrl0, _T("ColorCtrl"), hIcon ) );

I don’t see any tabs created. Am I missing something? Following your exmaple code, what do I need to add to show the tab control with two tabs, one of that of the color tab and the second of that of the edit controls tab.

thanks,

The problem is in the following line:

m_wndTabPageContainerFlat.Create(this, CRect( 0, 0, 0, 0 ), ID_TABCTRL);

You need to specify some real coordinates of the window instead of zeroes.