Normally in MFC Applications one can not create a status bar by default, this article shows you how status bar can be created in a dialog box.<\/p>\n
Create a Dialog based application, using MFC AppWizard,<\/p>\n
compile and make sure that every thing is working fine.<\/p>\n
Open \u201cresource.h\u201d<\/p>\n
define two identifiers in the file \u201dresource.h\u201d<\/strong>, for two panes, these identifier will be used to identify two panes in the status bar you are going to create.<\/p>\n #define ID_INDICATOR_PANE 106 define an array of indicators in DialogBox Source file, let say if you need to create two panes, you need to define two values as shown below. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n static UINT BASED_CODE indicators[] = <\/font><\/font> <\/p>\n Now make the necessary modifications in the Dialog Box\u2019s InitDialog<\/font><\/strong> function.<\/p>\n BOOL CMyStatusBarDialogDlg::OnInitDialog() \/\/ Set the icon for this dialog. <\/strong><\/font> \/\/ Here is what you need, to create a status bar \/\/ Find the Size of Dialog box<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n CRect rect; \/\/ Size the two panes \/\/ This is where we actually draw it RepositionBars( AFX_IDW_CONTROLBAR_FIRST, AFX_IDW_CONTROLBAR_LAST, ID_INDICATOR_TIME ) ; <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \/\/ Timer is Set to Update the Time on the status Bar. return TRUE; \/\/ return TRUE unless . . . . Implement the Message WM_TIMER to update time <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n Implement the WM_TIMER<\/font><\/strong> message handler to update the current time on the pane of the status bar.<\/p>\n void CStatusBarDialogDlg::OnTimer(UINT nIDEvent) if ( nIDEvent==STATUS_TIMEER ) build and execute, and voila you are done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Normally in MFC Applications one can not create a status bar by default, this article shows you how status bar can be created in a dialog box. Create a Dialog based application, using MFC AppWizard, compile and make sure that every thing is working fine. Open \u201cresource.h\u201d define two identifiers in the file \u201dresource.h\u201d, for… Continue reading Creating a status Bar in a Dialog Box ( VC++, MFC)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codeproject","category-mfc","tag-gui","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveenkatiyar.in\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
#define ID_INDICATOR_TIME 107<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n
{
ID_INDICATOR_PANE,
ID_INDICATOR_TIME
};<\/strong><\/p>\n
{
\/\/ rudimentary stuff
CDialog::OnInitDialog(); <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n
SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE); \/\/ Set big icon
SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE); \/\/ Set small icon
<\/strong><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n\n
m_StatusBar.Create(this); \/\/Create status bar
m_StatusBar.SetIndicators(indicators,2); <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
GetClientRect(&rect);
<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n
m_StatusBar.SetPaneInfo(0,ID_INDICATOR_PANE, SBPS_NORMAL, rect.Width()-100);
<\/strong><\/font>m_StatusBar.SetPaneInfo(1,ID_INDICATOR_TIME, SBPS_STRETCH ,0);
<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n
SetTimer(100,1000,NULL); <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n
}<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n
{
\/\/ TODO: Add your message handler code here <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n
{
CTime t1 ;
t1 = CTime::GetCurrentTime();
m_StatusBar.SetPaneText(1,t1.Format("%H:%M:%S"));
}
CDialog::OnTimer(nIDEvent);
}<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n