Control Add

[Peter Lameijn]

With a simple DDT program (address.bas will do) when I try to add the following:
Control Add "msctls_statusbar32",hDlg&,%SBar,0,0,0,0,%Ws_Child Or %Ws_Visible
When I insert the 'Control Add' after a 'Menu Attach ....', everything goes fine ( a statusbar is drawn ). If I insert the line before 'Menu Attach ....', the statusbar isn't drawn.... I know the menu attach does a screen redraw, but why does it remove the statusbar?
(I do InitCommonControls / InitCommonControlsEx)

Peter.

[Scott Turchin]

I haven't tried it that way, I know I ran into some complications so this was my workaround:

  Menu Attach mMenu, hDlg

  SetTimer  hDlg, %IDT_TIMER1, 1000, ByVal %NULL  'How often to check if it's time to go hit the Atomic Clock
  hStatus = CreateStatusWindow(%WS_CHILD Or %WS_CLIPSIBLINGS Or %WS_DLGFRAME Or %WS_VISIBLE _
                                 Or %SBS_SIZEGRIP,"", hDlg, 200)
  Dialog Show Modal hDlg Call DialogProc

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Scott Turchin

[Scott Turchin]

Interesting,
I put this BEFORE Menu Attach:

  Control Add "msctls_statusbar32", hDlg,hStatus,"",0,0,0,0,_
              %WS_CHILD Or %WS_CLIPSIBLINGS Or %WS_DLGFRAME Or %WS_VISIBLE Or %SBS_SIZEGRIP

I tried putting the size - 20 for the size of it, didn't matter..

'But this has to go in WM_INITDIALOG for it to resize properly after creation...
         Control Send hDlg,hStatus, %WM_SIZE, wParam, lParam
         'But this sure is nice, no varptr here   
         Control Set Text hDlg, hStatus, Mine + " " + Ver + " " + Copyrite

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Scott Turchin




[This message has been edited by Scott Turchin (edited January 10, 2000).]

[Lance Edmonds]

The usual way is to intercept %WM_SIZE messages in your dialog callback, and send a %WM_SIZE message to the statusbar in response.

IOW, you need to forward the %WM_SIZE message everytime your callback receives one, not just at creation time (especially if your parent dialog is resizable).


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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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