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OzzY

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OzzY 17 Apr 2005, 20:33

Hi! How to use tabcontrol?
I just build a resource file with my resource editor and put a tabcontrol on the dialog, but how to use it?

Thanks!

17 Apr 2005, 20:33

JohnFound

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JohnFound 17 Apr 2005, 21:14

Well, first of all - read carefully "Tab control reference" and related in win32.hlp
Then you have to create several tab items (TCM_INSERTITEM) and also, corresponding controls as a children of the tab control. Only one of them have to be visible at a time.
Store the handles of the children in corresponding tab item using lParam member of TCITEM structure.
Then process TCN_SELCHANGE and TCN_SELCHANGING notification messages (WM_NOTIFY) and on every new selected tab, hide the previous visible child and show the new one.
Of course you have to handle WM_SIZE of the parent to ensure the size of the tab control itself and the size of the children will fit exactly in the client area. You should use TCM_ADJUSTRECT to get the tab control client area, clear for children.

You can see pretty clear example in Fresh sources, file "editorhost.asm" - especially read WM_NOTIFY message handle and EHM_DOCKWINDOW (from the label .addtotabs) and _EHM_SETACTIVETAB (note that Windows doesn't send notification messages if the tab is selected through TCM_SETCURSEL message, so you have to send them yourself).

Regards.

17 Apr 2005, 21:14

coconut

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coconut 17 Apr 2005, 21:22

in masm syntax:
http://win32assembly.online.fr/files/TabbedDialog.zip

in tasm:
http://win32assembly.online.fr/files/TabTutorial.zip

fasmw also uses a tab control, you may want to browse thru the source

17 Apr 2005, 21:22

veach1

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veach1 18 Apr 2005, 06:24

in fasm (without resources):

Description:		Download
Filename:	tabctrl.rar
Filesize:	2.23 KB
Downloaded:	486 Time(s)

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18 Apr 2005, 06:24

JohnFound

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JohnFound 18 Apr 2005, 07:16

veach1 wrote:

in fasm (without resources):

Just replace the first line of source with:

Code:

include '%fasminc%\win32ax.inc'

18 Apr 2005, 07:16

veach1

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veach1 19 Apr 2005, 18:09

sorry...
fasminc.ini (combined common 'includes' from version 1.56 with added ODBC32.DLL structures + constants and API calls)

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Filename:	fasminc.rar
Filesize:	54.36 KB
Downloaded:	376 Time(s)

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19 Apr 2005, 18:09

Reverend

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Reverend 25 Apr 2005, 14:22

The prototype (not checked) would look like this:

Code:

        FIRST_CHILD_WINDOW_ID = 1
       ;...
        uglobal
          ChildWindowHandles:
            .Child1 dd ?
            .Child2 dd ?
            .Child3 dd ?
            .Child4 dd ?
           ;...
            .Childn dd ?
            NB_OF_WNDS = (($-ChildWindowHandles)/4)
        endg
       ;...
        ; creating all windows
        push    esi edi ebx
        mov     edi, ChildWindowHandles         ; all window handles will be stored there
        mov     esi, NB_OF_WNDS                 ; counter
        mov     ebx, FIRST_CHILD_WINDOW_ID      ; windows' IDs
     @@:
        invoke  CreateDialogParam, [hInstance], ebx, [hMainWindow], ChildWndProc1, 0
        stosd
        inc     ebx
        dec     esi
        jnz     @B
        pop     ebx edi esi
       ;...
        invoke  ShowWindow, [ChildWindowHandles.Child1], SW_SHOW
       ;...
        ; in window procedure
        cmp     [.uMsg], WM_NOTIFY
        jz      .notify
       ;...
        ; check if notify message is about tab control
  .notify:
        mov     eax,[.lParam]
        cmp     [eax+NMHDR.code], TCN_SELCHANGE
        jz      .selchange
        return
      .selchange:
        ; hide last window
        mov     eax, [LastShowedTab]
        invoke  ShowWindow, [ChildWindowHandles+eax*4], SW_HIDE
        ; show newly selected window
        invoke  SendMessage, [hTabControl], TCM_GETCURSEL, 0, 0
        mov     [LastShowedTab], eax
        invoke  ShowWindow, [ChildWindowHandles+eax*4], SW_SHOW
        return

25 Apr 2005, 14:22

kasake36

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kasake36 20 Apr 2006, 12:50

This thread was very helpful for me, and finally i could compile the tabctrl example of veach1, which helped me a lot! But i have a question regarding the child-windows of the tabs. Veach1 creates elements by invoking CreateWindowEx, but since you often have more content in those child-windows than a button or an edit-box, i wanted to create the child-windows by invoking DialogBoxParam... which crashes successfully.
So could anyone please give me a hint of how one can create "complex" child-windows using resources? Thank you!

P.S. I ALREADY had a look into the Fresh-editorhost.asm file.

20 Apr 2006, 12:50

kasake36

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kasake36 20 Apr 2006, 20:31

EUPHORIA!! I have now found out how to include "resource"-dialogs into the different tabs: For that i invoke the function CreateDialogParam.
The program "Sorting algorithms in Assembler", found on this site: http://www.codingcrew.de/marty/win32asm.php helped me out! Thank you dear program Wink

20 Apr 2006, 20:31

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