BaseBar control

[K Peel]

Hi,
Has anyone used the BaseBar control successfully? (its those quite cool moveable bars in explorer), I used depends.exe on explorer.exe and it appears to access 'hidden' API's in comctl32.dll, explorer.exe is not linked in any way to MFC, btw.

Could this be a COM implemented control?

Regards,


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Kev G Peel
KGP Software
Bridgwater, UK.
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[Semen Matusovski]

Kev --
what means BaseBar ? Pls, give reference to MSDN.
Could be you talk about moveable appbars ?

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[K Peel]

Semen, no its got nothing to do with appbars, I also searched all my MSDN cds (1999 version) with no results.

Armed with Spy++ I checked explorer for the class name of the control, and it said "BaseBar". The control is basically a parent 'frame' which has 'panes' in each view.

The BaseBar appears to be a Microsoft 'in house' class that no one else can use, which probably has something to do with the hidden COMCTL32 dependencies.

I just thought it would be useful if we could access this control, but it appears that we can't.


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Kev G Peel
KGP Software
Bridgwater, UK.
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Semen Matusovski]

Kev --
I'm very doubt, that this class is registrated by COMCTL32.
Otherwise it will be possible to find word BaseBar inside this DLL. (I can't find)

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[Scott Hauser]

Kev,
Could it be a rebar control perhaps?

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[K Peel]

Scott, no its not a rebar.

Semen, I think you may be right the class could actually be contained within explorer.exe.

Thanks for the replies anyway

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Kev G Peel
KGP Software
Bridgwater, UK.
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[This message has been edited by K Peel (edited May 11, 2000).]

[Borje Hagsten]

A quick search revealed that the word "Basebar" can be found in
both SHDOCVW.DLL and SHELL32.DLL. Maybe it can have something to
do with the SHAppBarMessage API? The plot thickens..


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[E B Knoppert]

I think he means the dragable 'coolbar'.

This bar has the tine left border to drag, control should be placed upon it.

Check out the coolbar decl's in common controls inc.



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[K Peel]

Edwin, no its not a CoolBar as a CoolBar is a Rebar.

Borje, thanks for the info about the Shell API DLL's, I am satisified that no-one other than MFC users and Microsoft can use this 'control', as it is also in Microsoft Outlook and some MFC applications that i've used (Depends).

I thinks its a good idea to close this topic now (unless anyone stumbles across some source code for the control, which would be most welcome )

Regards,


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Kev G Peel
KGP Software
Bridgwater, UK.
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[E B Knoppert]

But i'm curious how it looks!

Is there a picture?

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[K Peel]

I've done a screenshot of the Outlook implementation, at:

www.kgpsoftware.freeserve.co.uk/basebar.gif



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Kev G Peel
KGP Software
Bridgwater, UK.
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Scott Hauser]

Kev,
VB & MSC++ on visual studio use similar controls. The (MSDN sampler VC 4.0 & up) does as well.
Also Ultraedit by Ian Mead uses a horizontal control similar to that in his editor.
Possibly if you found out what classes these use you might be able to get the same effect.

Scott



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[Ian Cairns]

It looks like you are referring to a Splitter Bar.
There is a demo in the Common Controls section of PB files:

http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/pbdll32/controls/

regards,

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[K Peel]

Thanx Ian,
I have found a better explanation and example code at:

http://www.relisoft.com/win32/splitter.html

Regards,


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Kev G Peel
KGP Software
Bridgwater, UK.
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