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Change Name of Property Page in Property Sheet?

Hi.
I have a Property Sheet that contains a Property Page.
I want to override the name of the Page in the Sheet.
Currently it grabs the default name from the dialog resource.
I tried a SetWindowText() call in my OnInitDialog of
the Page, but this does not work.
However, the same code does work if the Page is a
dialog by itself (ie: not in a Sheet).

Does anybody know how to do this?

Thanks,
Bruce

NickRepin

You can try the PSM_GETTABCONTROL message to get the tab control handle, then TCM_SETITEM to set the item text.

bwilhelm

ASKER

Thanks for the tip.
I tried it and it works great as long as I call it from within the Sheet's OnInitDialog().
However, I need a way to do this from the Page class,
since our Sheet class is generic and is designed to hold different
arrangements of pages.

Likewise I was not able to this at a higher level, where the Sheet
is created and pages are added to it. This is because the TabControl
is not a valid window handle until DoModal() is called, and by then it's
too late to change the string.

Do you have any other suggestions?

GloriousRain

// this example to set caption for tab #1 in property sheet
#define TAB_INDEX 1

void CFindSheet::SetTabCaption()
{
CTabCtrl* pTab = GetTabControl();
ASSERT(pTab);
TC_ITEM ti;
char szText[100];
ti.mask = TCIF_TEXT;
ti.pszText = szText;
ti.cchTextMax = 100;
VERIFY(pTab->GetItem(TAB_INDEX, &ti));

strcpy(szText, "Your tab caption");
VERIFY(pTab->SetItem(TAB_INDEX, &ti));
}

then call SetTabCaption on CFindSheet::OnInitDialog()

DanRollins

hi bwilhelm,
Are you still following this question? Are you interested in another approach?

-- Dan

bwilhelm

ASKER

I worked around this problem by making a non-generic sheet
and implementing the TCM_SETITEM calls.

However, I am still interested in any alternate solutions that
do not involve changing the sheet.

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bwilhelm

ASKER

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!