Making Programs With Tabs

Question

Is there a way to create a program with tabs with C++ without MFC? Just pure WinAPI for example. With Propert Sheets, or Tab Controls. I'm not sure Tab Control is a MFC-specific class or not.

I couldn't find a good example about doing this with Property Sheets, or anything else. Every example uses MFC, but I need a non-MFC example.

Is there a way of doing this without MFC? With Propery Sheets, or with the Tab Control?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Of course, it is possible. MFC is just a wrapper around Windows APIs. If you are willing to spend more time developing "pure" Win32 application, then see this sample for Tab Control -Tab Control in Win32

Answer 2

These are basically your possibilities:

1. Use the standard Win32 property sheets, see this;
2. Make use of a GUI library that implements it;
3. Create a dialog with a tab control and add pages to it (you would create the pages as child windows and handle the show/hide yourself), but let Windows the deal with the dialog message loop, see this;
4. Create a window with a tab control and make it look and act like a dialog using this.

The last one offers the most flexibility, but is also the hardest to implement.