Netscape 4.x Preferences Dialog Nevada

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When designing complex dialog boxes, one uses a property sheet whose functionality is encapsulated by MFC class CPropertySheet. However, there are several cases where alternative approach (dialog box similar to Netscape 4.x Preferences dialog box) is more flexible and user friendly. * When there are a lot of property pages in which case it is difficult to navigate thru the pages. * When there are several different sets of property pages whose visibility depends on the state of the application. * When there is a need for nested property pages. Of course, there is always a possibility to derive a class from CPropertySheet and adapt it for the task at hand. However, this requires in depth knowledge of MFC implementation and also browsing the MFC source code which is not a trivial thing to do.



Basically, tree control contains a list names where each name is associated with a property page. This list may be (1) a simple list with no root, (2) list with a root which indicates the purpose of the visible set of property pages and (3) a list where one or

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