Major and minor tabs are used to organize related pages into sections. Minor tabs define subsections within major tab sections. The content of each section has a common theme, which is represented to the user by a tabbed divider that is similar to a tabbed page in a notebook, an address book, or a large dictionary.
The BKS_MAJORTABRIGHT style bit specifies that major tabs are to be placed on the right side of the notebook. This is the default major tab placement when the back pages intersect at the bottom-right corner of the notebook. The binding is located on the left, because it is always located on the opposite side of the notebook from the major tabs.
The placement of the major tabs is limited to one of the two edges on which there are recessed pages. For example, if the application specifies the back pages intersection at the bottom-right corner (BKS_BACKPAGESBR, the default), the major tabs can be placed on either the bottom edge (BKS_MAJORTABBOTTOM) or the right edge (BKS_MAJORTABRIGHT) of the notebook. In this situation, if the application specifies that major tabs are to be placed on the left or top edges of the notebook, the notebook control places them on the right edge anyway-the default placement for back pages intersecting at the bottom-right corner.
When major tabs are defined at the creation of the notebook they are not displayed on screen. Major tab attributes only show at the time a page is inserted into the notebook. This is done by specifying the BKA_MAJOR attribute in the BKM_INSERTPAGE message.