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I have a property sheet that loads 4 pages. On one of my dialog resources I have a CLinkCtrl object. When that control is on the page, that page will not display within the property sheet. When I remove it, the page loads just fine. What is frustrating is, this used to work just fine.

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Tried changing to CMFCLinkCtrl, recompiling and still no good.
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[no name] 22-Sep-23 12:39pm    
Please use the Improve question link above, and add complete details of the actual code.

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I was very curious about this so I made a test dialog with a SysLink control in it and, sure enough, it would not load. So I read the documentation and added a call to InitCommonControlsEx with the ICC_LINK_CLASS flag set and that failed. After a little more reading I think I found the key to the whole thing. A note in one of the docs says, "Version 6 of ComCtl32.dll supports Unicode only." I then made a very simple MFC dialog-based app that IS Unicode and it worked.

So, there you have it - your app HAS to be Unicode to use the control. If yours actually IS Unicode then something else is going on.
 
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Garry I 2021 23-Sep-23 14:07pm    
Good grief, that was EXACTLY the issue. When trying to integrate a new API version, I had switched to the multi-byte character set to accommodate differences in the new API release... I switched back to Unicode and everything worked just fine again. Thanks very much Rick
Rick York 23-Sep-23 14:46pm    
You are welcome.

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