Non-button Controls on a Toolbar

[Lance Edmonds]

Hi Folks,

Can anyone suggest a reference, URL or MSDN article (or anything!) on placing non-button (ie, non-standard) controls on a toolbar?

I'd prefer to place a pair of radio/option buttons, but I just can't get this working. Any advise welcome.

Thanks!

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Lance
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[E B Knoppert]

See OLMENU, unf. drawtext API error on some resolutions but it's been made using DrawFrameControl API.
This one can paint your options too.

A lot of work to determine were the user clicked.

So, no real controls..



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[Jules Marchildon]

Lance, I need to understand what you are doing. Do you want to
place your radio button to either side of a normal toolbar
buttons (similar to the combobox/toolbar example) or do you want
to replace one of the buttons with a radio button (or custom
child)?

Can your application use a Rebar container?

I would like to do something similar, I want to mimic the MDI spec for a Max'd window when the Min/Max button gets transferred
to the Menu client area, but instead I want to put it in the
toolbar client area instead. If I can do this, then I can finish
of my MDI solution for DDT users(a custom control include file).

Regards,
Jules

[Steve Hutchesson]

Lance,

I lost the code for doing it on a dead HDD but from memory, I just
used the handle of the toolbar as the parent and placed the control
onto the toolbar surface. I dont remember ant real problems doing it
and I used a drop down combo box with the example.

[email protected]

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[Jules Marchildon]

If that is all you want to do, there are lots of MSDN examples.
I will send you Nancy Cluts example now.

Regards, Jules

[Guest]

Hey that sounds neat, I think I would be interested in seeing that example also Jules. The more examples the better I always say.

Regards,
Adam

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[Lance Edmonds]

Thanks for the help guys! Thanks for the example code Jules... I see where I went wrong now!

BTW, I dont want to use a rebar control, as it unnecessarily complicates things.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Borje Hagsten]

Don't know if this is it, but the following puts an option-like, round
checkbox on a toolbar and sets its text (the PBpad sample used here)
Actions are received in %WM_COMMAND, when LOWRD(wParam) = %IDOPT1

It can also be used for other controls, like combo lists, etc.
(see win32.hlp and "CreateWindow" for more info..

x = left position on toolbar.
y = top position on toolbar.
w = width
h = height
hToolbar = the toolbar's hWnd
hWndOpt = the control's hWnd
%IDOPT1 = (Id num, whatever you like, 300, 400, etc)

  hWndOpt = CreateWindowEx(0, "BUTTON", BYVAL %NULL, _
            %WS_CHILD OR %BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON OR %WS_VISIBLE, _
            x, y, w, h, hToolbar, %IDOPT1, hInst, BYVAL %Null)
 
  zText = "Option 1"
  SendMessage hWndOpt, %WM_SETTEXT, 0, VARPTR(zText)

Forgot to mention that you need at least two of these, because the
check state are automatically set to checked for the selected one and
unchecked for all other %BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON controls on the toolbar.

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[This message has been edited by Borje Hagsten (edited February 18, 2000).]