Introduction to the Wizard 97

The Platform Internet SDK along with its all other Goodies adds a new Property Sheet Wizard User Interface. It could enhance your user interface by supporting a watermark background bitmap and a bitmapped header for the property page.

The attached sample demonstrates an application whose main window is a Wizard 97 based property sheet.

Microsoft has included two new classes for the purpose.

CPropertySheetEx - CPropertySheet enhancing the current property sheet to support a watermark background bitmap and a bitmapped header.

CPropertyPageEx - CPropertyPage enhancing the current property page to determine whether the page requires a header or a watermark background.

Sample Screen of the test application

After building a bitmap handle to the Watermark and the Header bitmap it is passed to the constructor to the extended property sheets constructor.

CPropertySheetEx( UINT nIDCaption, CWnd* pParentWnd = NULL, UINT iSelectPage = 0, HBITMAP hbmWatermark = NULL, HPALETTE hpalWatermark = NULL, HBITMAP hbmHeader = NULL );

Also the flags for the property sheet header flags should include the PSH_WIZARD97 style in the constructor.

Also the flags for the property page header could include the

PSP_HIDEHEADER style in the constructor to prompt that no header is required (the header bitmap is not displayed example in the welcome page - 1^st page)

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