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#include < stdarg.h > // StatusBarMessage() – Writes to status bar using sprintf syntax. // // Author: Keith Rule — keithr@europa.com // // Copyright (c) 1995-1996, Keith Rule // May be freely used provided this comment // is included with the source and all derived // versions of this source. void StatusBarMessage(char* fmt, …) { […]

Assuming that most of the time when you are about to start a long operation, you want to show a short text in the leftmost plain-vanilla text pane, and immediately next to it a progress bar, a nice solution would be not to disturb the content of the status bar, create a progress control, initialize […]

Here is how to add the current time to your status bar… Step 1: Derive a CMyStatusBar class from CStatusBar as follows: //MyStatusBar.h: //============== class CMyStatusBar : public CStatusBar { DECLARE_DYNCREATE(CMyStatusBar) public: CMyStatusBar(); ~CMyStatusBar(); private: CString m_strClockFormat; public: void SetClockFormat(LPCTSTR strClockFormat); // Overrides // ClassWizard generated virtual function overrides //{{AFX_VIRTUAL(CMyStatusBar) //}}AFX_VIRTUAL // Generated message map […]

With the XStatusBar-class it is very easy to display text, numbers, bitmaps or progressbars in a statusbar. It also provides temporary display of text in any pane with automatic restore of the normal appearance. For example, it is possible to display a scrolling bitmap in a pane but during a long operation, a progressbar indicates […]

If an icon is used in a static control, it is sensitive to changes in the system colours. This means that areas of the icon that have background colour, is updated with the new background colour etc. As far as I can see, there is not the same if instead a bitmap is used in […]

Download project file. In this project CStatic is subclassed to give you a different type of scrolling credits. The credits scroll from the right to left but the text is drawn along a sine-wave.

 Download Source Code and Example Every wanted a static control that behaved like a Visual Basic(yuk!) label control? Well this could be just the thing you might be looking for. The first cut version of this MFC extension class will allow you to change the text, font attributes (weight, underline, size, name), text color, background […]

Download source file or demo project. This static subclass is based on the Scrolling credits dialog by Mark Findlay. I have made some modifications to enable the use of resource strings, and added some functionality to make the background look more professional. By implementing the functionality through a CStatic subclass it is no longer dependant […]

A rich edit control without UI to change the character and paragraph formatting is not really very useful as a rich text editor. In this section we will develop code for a Format toolbar that can be used with a CRichEditView derivative. There is no hard link between the toolbar itself and the CRichEditView, so […]

I wanted an edit that shows format characters (‘TAB’ and ‘CRLF’). I tried a little with an CEdit but it never worked. The I found CRTFCtrl::GetCharPos() which will give you the coordinates of a given character in the control. With this function I was able to determin the position of the format characters I wanted […]

When inserting Rich Text Formatted text into the control there are two approaches you can take. Insert the control into the text, then select it and then format it. This can result in a lot of code and not very clean code at that. The other approach is that you can format the text into […]

If you are using a CRichEditView derivative, you have built in support for three different word wrap modes. The three modes are: WrapNone Indicates no automatic word wrapping WrapToWindow Indicates word wrapping based on the width of the window WrapToTargetDevice Indicates word wrapping based on the characteristics of the target device To change the mode […]