Tip of the day–An easy & convenient way to create tabs in an MFC application
Hi Community,
Today I started to write an MFC application that comprises the Kinect sensor and its SDK, and the idea is to have a single UI with different views, this functionality is provided by the CTabCtrl class (Tab control) – I could’ve accomplish this by creating tabs and setting its properties individually but it’s repetitive code that might grow in the future when a new tab is required, so I came up with a convenient way to do this as shown in the snippet below
void MyKinectAppDlg::CreateTabControl() {
auto nIndex = 0;
auto tabs = std::map<std::wstring, TCITEM>();
tabs.insert(std::pair<std::wstring, TCITEM>(L"Color View", TCITEM()));
tabs.insert(std::pair<std::wstring, TCITEM>(L"Depth View", TCITEM()));
tabs.insert(std::pair<std::wstring, TCITEM>(L"Skeletal View", TCITEM()));
std::for_each(tabs.begin(), tabs.end(), [&] (std::pair<std::wstring, TCITEM> tab) {
tab.second.mask = TCIF_TEXT;
tab.second.pszText = (LPWSTR) tab.first.c_str();
m_streamTabs.InsertItem(nIndex++, &tab.second);
});
}
and the tab control created is
Happy coding & happy weekend!
Angel
Filed under: Microsoft - @ March 11, 2012 3:34 pm
Tags: C++, MFC, Visual C++