Hosting a Control in a Dialog
Inserting a Control into a Dialog Resource
So far, I’ve discussed the basics of control containment using a frame window as a control container. An even more common place to contain controls is the ever-popular dialog. For quite a while, the Visual C++ resource editor has allowed a control to be inserted into a dialog resource by right-clicking a dialog resource and choosing Insert ActiveX Control. As of Visual C++ 6.0, ATL supports creating dialogs that host the controls inserted into dialog resources.
To add an ActiveX Control to a dialog, you must first add it to the Visual Studio toolbox. This is pretty simple. Get the toolbox onto the screen, and then right-click and select Choose Items. This brings up the Choose ...
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