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Started by madfisher September 12, 2002 12:27 PM

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madfisher

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September 12, 2002 12:27 PM

Hi there, Does anybody know how to add a status bar to a sin32 application with no MFC in visual c++? THanks

Burning_Ice

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September 12, 2002 02:50 PM

    #define STATUSBAR 0x100HWND StatusBarHandle = CreateStatusWindow ( WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, "", MainWindowHandle, STATUSBAR );

the STATUSBAR is the id that will be used e.g. in your messageloop to identify messages from the statusbar

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[edited by - Burning_Ice on September 12, 2002 3:51:22 PM]

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LessBread

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September 12, 2002 02:56 PM

Google on "CreateStatusWindow". This function basically wraps CreateWindowEx. Set the handle to the main window as the parent of the status bar window. Also look up SB_SETPARTS for info on setting the number of panels on the status bar.

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madfisher

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September 13, 2002 06:51 AM

Thanks that worked. However I have another issue. I am using scroll bars and the status bar now appears above the horizontal scroll bar. Does anybody know how I can fix this?

Thanks

Hippokrates

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September 13, 2002 08:11 AM

How can I set the status bar`s text?

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Burning_Ice

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September 13, 2002 08:39 AM

madfisher: i believe you cant have standard scrollbars and statusbar. You have to create your own scrollbar with CreateWindowEx like this (taken from my help files):

        hwndScroll = CreateWindowEx(     0L,                          // no extended styles     "SCROLLBAR",                 // scroll bar control class     (LPSTR) NULL,                // text for window title bar     WS_CHILD | SBS_HORZ,         // scroll bar styles     0,                           // horizontal position     0,                           // vertical position     200,                         // width of the scroll bar     CW_USEDEFAULT,               // default height     hwnd,                   // handle of main window     (HMENU) NULL,           // no menu for a scroll bar     hinst,                  // instance owning this window     (LPVOID) NULL           // pointer not needed );

but instead of a 0, 0 for the position you place it so that it shows above the status bar

Hippokrates:

          SendMessage ( StatusBarHandle, SB_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM)(LPSTR) str );

where str is the text you want it to have

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[edited by - Burning_Ice on September 13, 2002 9:52:13 AM]

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