Support for Property Pages

[anthonydotmoe]

I'm working on writing an MMC Snap-in, and I'd like to use winsafe to handle property sheet pages. All MMC wants is for you to create your property sheet pages using the Win32 CreatePropertySheetPage function, then pass the returned HPROPSHEETPAGE to the supplied COM interface (IPropertySheetCallback). It seems like property sheet pages are simply modeless dialog boxes presented in a tabular format, so I think that adapting should be simple enough.
I briefly tried extending the library, creating a PropsheetPage struct similar to the RawModeless struct, but I still haven't traced how everything would fit together. I could continue to try implementing it, but it would help if I could get some guidance on a preferred structure for the implementation.

[rodrigocfd]

I never used property sheets before, but as far as I could see, its implementation isn't straightforward... so far, I found this example, is it enough for your needs? Do you have a better one?

I will start implementing CreatePropertySheetPage and related stuff.

[anthonydotmoe]

I just uploaded a barebones example of making a property sheet page here: propsheetpage-example.

What I was thinking winsafe could do is give me the same type of abstraction as a normal window or dialog from resource id, except instead of running the dialog directly, it could give me an HPROPSHEETPAGE. The CreatePropertySheetPage function really just needs the DlgProc address and the resource ID for the dialog. It could be exactly like in this example, except we could expose a .get_hpropsheetpage from the wnd member.

[rodrigocfd]

Yes, I'm think the same: provide a high-level abstraction, reusing the same existing dialog event API. But besides that, the foundation must also exist and be usable on itself, and PROPSHEETPAGEW is crazy unsafe.

I'm really careful writing the best possible abstraction around it, and your example will be greatly useful. Thank you very much.

[rodrigocfd]

I pushed the preliminar versions (still very unsafe) of CreatePropertySheetPage and PropertySheet functions, along with the structs.

See how much of a lifetime hell this is...