Modifying the Default Property Page
Circle: ActiveX Control, Lesson 8
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This lesson illustrates how to work with the default property page. The default property page is a dialog box that allows the user to add controls for viewing and changing properties. ControlWizard supplies a default property page when it creates the ActiveX control project.
Note You can find a finished example of this lesson's code in the CIRC3 sample source code directory.
A property page provides the interface for viewing and editing a control’s properties at design time. ActiveX controls use the default property page to display and modify properties that are not handled by stock property pages, such as the stock Font property page added to the Circle control in Lesson 7, Handling Text and Fonts.
This lesson modifies a default property page to display and modify the Caption property.
In this lesson, you will: