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I just started replacing some of my CTabCtrls with CExtTabPageContainerWnds.  While I do think the page container functionality is more intuitive than the truely bizarre CTabCtrl (and underlying Windows Common control) behavior, I find that I really miss the borders offered by the Windows control.

I am aware that CExtTabPageContainerWnd is written from the ground up and is not related to CTabCtrl.  However, the bordres would really be nice.  Is it possible to display a border (around the child pages) similar to the CTabCtrl?  If so, how?  If not, can this be a feature request?

 

 

You can apply the WS_EX_STATICEDGE window style for your tab page container window.

m_wndTabPageContainer.ModifyStyleEx( 0, WS_EX_STATICEDGE );
 
UINT nSetWindowPosFlags =
            SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE
            |SWP_NOZORDER|SWP_NOOWNERZORDER
            |SWP_NOACTIVATE
            |SWP_FRAMECHANGED
            ;
m_wndTabPageContainer.SetWindowPos(NULL,0,0,0,0,nSetWindowPosFlags);  

You can see how it is done in the ProfUIS_Controls sample on the "Tab Containers" page when you click the "Show borders" check box.

The frame should be around the contained dialog/control and not the tab. This solution doe not work.

Please look at all modern tabs - the contained contained window is somehow linked to the tab control.

Would you send us two screen shots :

1) Some modern tabs without any problems.

2) Our tabs in your application that causes problems.

Here are two samples:

I can send yo more if you want...

 

Dear Support and Jeremy,

This is something am asking for a long time now - I think that if you embed a dialog inside a tab container there must be some kind of a frame to show that the dialog is related to the tab container. Please try and add this feature to the next version.

Thanks,

Ron.