Using ComboBox on a Flat Toolbar

This was tricky i spent week and a half on this but I solved it by studying the messages that a combobox gives off. I want to thank joerg for helping me get the combobox on the toolbar this class was written to take advantage of th CToolBarEx as a base class that Joerg had contributated.

There is a message CBN_SELENDOK that is immediatly posted before CBN_SELCHANGE.

Using these two messages and a static variable you can pass the current sel that you selected to class outside of the Combobar class. the nice thing is that the api handles the setting the focus correctly.

Here is some code on how it was down.

combobar.cpp

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CComboBar, CToolBarEx)
//{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CComboBar)
ON_CBN_SELENDOK(IDW_TOOLCOMBO, OnSelEndOk)
//}}AFX_MSG_MAP
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

BOOL CComboBar::Create(CFrameWnd * pParent, UINT nID, UINT nComboID,
					   const int nWidth,
					     const int nHeight)
{
	// Create the toolbar as CMainFrame::OnCreate() would do
	if (!CToolBar::Create(pParent) ||
		  !LoadToolBar(nID))
	{
		  TRACE0("Falied to create the toolbar.\n");
		  return FALSE;      // fail to create
	}
	
	// set the size of combo-control
	CRect rect(-nWidth, -nHeight, 0, 0);
	
	// make the button, that is selected to be the combo-control,
	// a separator and resize that separator
	ASSERT(CommandToIndex(nComboID) >= 0); // make sure the id is valid
	SetButtonInfo(CommandToIndex(nComboID), nComboID, TBBS_SEPARATOR,
		nWidth);
	
	// create the combo-control itself, reposition it in the
	// client-area and show it
	if (!m_pWndBox.Create(WS_CHILD | CBS_DROPDOWN |
		  CBS_AUTOHSCROLL | WS_VSCROLL | CBS_HASSTRINGS, rect, this,
		  nComboID))
	{
		  TRACE("Failed to create the combo-box %p .\n", nComboID);
		  return FALSE;
	}
	
	GetItemRect(CommandToIndex(nComboID), &rect);
	m_pWndBox.SetWindowPos(0, rect.left, rect.top, 0, 0,
		SWP_NOZORDER|SWP_NOACTIVATE|SWP_NOSIZE|SWP_NOCOPYBITS);
	m_pWndBox.SetFont(&m_GuiFont);
	m_pWndBox.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
	
	if (!OnInitialCreate())
	{
		  TRACE("Failed to add strings to %p\n", nComboID);
		  return FALSE;
	}
	
	// yup - now we should be able to see a toolbar with a combo-box
	return TRUE;
}

BOOL CComboBar::OnInitialCreate()
{
	if(m_pWndBox.m_hWnd != NULL)
	{
		  //This is where you add your strings
		  m_pWndBox.AddString("Page Width");
		  m_pWndBox.AddString("150 %");
		  m_pWndBox.AddString("125 %");
		  m_pWndBox.AddString("100 %");
		  m_pWndBox.AddString("75  %");
		  m_pWndBox.AddString("50  %");
		  m_pWndBox.AddString("25  %");
		  //Don't forget the initial position.
		  m_pWndBox.SetCurSel(0);
		
		  return TRUE;
	}
	return FALSE;
}

int CComboBar::m_cbIndex = 0;

void CComboBar::OnSelEndOk()
{
	m_cbIndex = m_pWndBox.GetCurSel();
}

combobar.h

class CComboBar : public CToolBarEx
{
	// Construction
public:
	CComboBar();
	CComboBox m_pWndBox;
	//This is the storage variable for the index value of the combobox
	static int m_cbIndex;
	
	// Attributes
public:
	
	// Operations
public:
	BOOL OnInitialCreate();
	//  is the toolbar-resource to load
	//  is the ID of the button, that shall be used as the
	combo-control
		BOOL Create(CFrameWnd * pParent, UINT nID, UINT nComboID, const int
		nWidth,
		  const int nHeight);
	
	// Overrides
	// ClassWizard generated virtual function overrides
	//{{AFX_VIRTUAL(CComboBar)
public:
	virtual void OnFinalRelease();
	//}}AFX_VIRTUAL
	
	// Implementation
public:
	virtual ~CComboBar();
	
	// Generated message map functions
protected:
	//{{AFX_MSG(CComboBar)
	//}}AFX_MSG
	
	DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
		// Generated OLE dispatch map functions
		//{{AFX_DISPATCH(CComboBar)
		  // NOTE - the ClassWizard will add and remove member functions here.
		  afx_msg void OnSelEndOk();
	//}}AFX_DISPATCH
	DECLARE_DISPATCH_MAP()
		DECLARE_INTERFACE_MAP()
};

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//{{AFX_INSERT_LOCATION}}
// Microsoft Developer Studio will insert additional declarations immediately before the previous line.

#endif //!defined(AFX_COMBOBAR_H__1A26E666_6D60_11D1_81F9_0020781030ED__INCLUDED_)

to use this stuff in another class you need to include

#include "combobar.h"

then using the ON_CBN_SELCHANGE message you retrieve the index like this

void CDSViewView::OnSelChange()
{
	int nCase = m_ComboBox.m_cbIndex;
	
	switch(nCase)
	{
	case 0:
		  //code for m_cbIndex = 0
		  break;
	case 1:
		  //code for m_cbInex = 1
		  break;
	default:
		  //default code here
	}
	
}

In CToolBarEx in the header file.I move the following code around.

private:
	CFont m_GuiFont;

to

public:
	CFont m_GuiFont;