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Hi,

a.I would like to have an example of how creating a windows and displaying it on win95.

b.I aslo would like to have a status bar, the c++ program that I am creating will take some time so I would like to display where about the program is to inform the user that it's still running and doing some stuff. Can anyone give me an example of that too...

Thanks for your help.

Tom Knowlton

Which compiler are you using?

For example, Borland C++ Builder, Microsoft Visual C++?

If you have C++ Builder, I'd be happy to send you some source code / demos on what you're trying to do.

yesnaud

ASKER

Sorry it was for VC++ 6.0

Tom Knowlton

It's been a long time since I've programmed in VC++. There are plenty of people who DO know it, though. I'm sure they'll be along shortly. :)

Good luck.

Shay050799

go to file->new
and choose project
than choose MFC exe application, and walk through the instruction

yesnaud

ASKER

I don't want to go through the instruction, I want to have a simple code, to create a window, and a status bar...

Sorry.

BSoeters

Use all these files below, together with the library "comctl32.lib" (common controls).

The functions "CreateStatusWindow()", "DrawStatusText()" and "MenuHelp()" could be of some help to you. You might find it worthy to look into them.

You can look in the online help for "Platform, SDK, and DDK Documentation" -> "Platform SDK" -> "User Interface Services" -> "Common Controls" -> "Status Windows".

Hope this helps !

-----[ statusbar.c ]------------------------------------------------------------

/***************************************************************************
Standard Windows headers
***************************************************************************/

#define STRICT
#include <windows.h>

#include <commctrl.h> /* for common controls support, maybe diff in NT */

#include <stdio.h> /* for sprintf */

/***************************************************************************
Special headers
***************************************************************************/

#include "resource/resource.h" /* for the identifiers into .rc */

/***************************************************************************
Definitions
***************************************************************************/

#define NROF_STATUSPARTS 6 /* number of partitions in the status window */

/***************************************************************************
Prototyping
***************************************************************************/

BOOL CALLBACK MainWindow (HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

/***************************************************************************
Globals
***************************************************************************/

HINSTANCE g_hInstance = NULL; /* global: current application instance handle */
HWND g_hMainWindow = NULL; /* global: main window handle */
HWND g_hStatusBar = NULL; /* global: status bar window handle */

/***************************************************************************
Application entry point
***************************************************************************/

int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR szCmdLine,
int iCmdShow)
{
MSG msg;

g_hInstance = hInstance;

/* Initialize common controls library */
InitCommonControls();

/* Create a modeless dialog box, using a dialog from the resource script file
In this particular case, the dialog "IDD_MAIN" in the .rc file is used. */

g_hMainWindow = CreateDialog (hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE (IDD_MAIN), NULL, &MainWindow);

if (g_hMainWindow)
{
while (GetMessage (&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{
if (g_hMainWindow == NULL || !IsDialogMessage (g_hMainWindow, &msg))
{
TranslateMessage (&msg);
DispatchMessage (&msg);
}
}

if (g_hMainWindow)
{
DestroyWindow (g_hMainWindow);
g_hMainWindow = NULL;
}
}

return (0);
}

/***************************************************************************
Main window message handler
***************************************************************************/

BOOL CALLBACK MainWindow (HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wp, LPARAM lp)
{
BOOL handledmsg = FALSE; /* Message handled or not state */

RECT rcclient;
int statuspartwidth;
int statuspart[NROF_STATUSPARTS];
int index;
int style;
char sbtext[256];

switch (msg)
{
case WM_INITDIALOG: /* Create the status window */
g_hStatusBar = CreateWindow (STATUSCLASSNAME, "",
WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE,
0, 0, 0, 0,
hwnd, NULL, g_hInstance, NULL);

if (g_hStatusBar)
{
GetClientRect (hwnd, &rcclient);
statuspartwidth = rcclient.right / NROF_STATUSPARTS;

for (index = 0; index < NROF_STATUSPARTS; index++)
statuspart[index] = statuspartwidth * (index + 1);

SendMessage (g_hStatusBar, SB_SETPARTS, NROF_STATUSPARTS, (LPARAM) statuspart);

for (index = 0; index < NROF_STATUSPARTS; index++)
{
switch (index % 3)
{
case 1 : style = SBT_POPOUT;
break;

case 2 : style = SBT_NOBORDERS;
break;

default: style = 0;
break;
}

sprintf (sbtext, "Statusbar part %d", index);
SendMessage (g_hStatusBar, SB_SETTEXT, index | style, (LPARAM) sbtext);
}
}

handledmsg = TRUE;
break;

case WM_CLOSE: SendMessage (hwnd, WM_DESTROY, 0, 0);
handledmsg = TRUE;
break;

case WM_DESTROY: if (g_hStatusBar)
{
DestroyWindow (g_hStatusBar);
g_hStatusBar = NULL;
}

PostQuitMessage (0);

handledmsg = TRUE;
break;
}

if (msg == WM_COMMAND)
{
switch (LOWORD (wp))
{
case IDCANCEL:
case IDOK: SendMessage (hwnd, WM_CLOSE, (WPARAM) 0, (LPARAM) 0);
handledmsg = TRUE;
break;
}
}

return (handledmsg);
}

-----[ resource.h ]-------------------------------------------------------------

//{{NO_DEPENDENCIES}}
// Microsoft Developer Studio generated include file.
// Used by Statusbar.rc
//
#define IDD_MAIN 101

// Next default values for new objects
//
#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
#ifndef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
#define _APS_NEXT_RESOURCE_VALUE 102
#define _APS_NEXT_COMMAND_VALUE 40001
#define _APS_NEXT_CONTROL_VALUE 1001
#define _APS_NEXT_SYMED_VALUE 101
#endif
#endif

-----[ statusbar.rc ]-----------------------------------------------------------

//Microsoft Developer Studio generated resource script.
//
#include "resource.h"

#define APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Generated from the TEXTINCLUDE 2 resource.
//
#include "afxres.h"

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#undef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// English (U.S.) resources

#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_ENU)
#ifdef _WIN32
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
#pragma code_page(1252)
#endif //_WIN32

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Dialog
//

IDD_MAIN DIALOG DISCARDABLE 0, 0, 352, 111
STYLE DS_3DLOOK | DS_NOFAILCREATE | DS_CENTER | WS_MINIMIZEBOX | WS_POPUP |
WS_VISIBLE | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION "Statusbar"
FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"
BEGIN
PUSHBUTTON "E&xit",IDOK,295,7,50,14
END

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// DESIGNINFO
//

#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
GUIDELINES DESIGNINFO DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
IDD_MAIN, DIALOG
BEGIN
LEFTMARGIN, 7
RIGHTMARGIN, 345
TOPMARGIN, 7
BOTTOMMARGIN, 104
END
END
#endif // APSTUDIO_INVOKED

#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// TEXTINCLUDE
//

1 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
"resource.h\0"
END

2 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
"#include ""afxres.h""\r\n"
"\0"
END

3 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
"\r\n"
"\0"
END

#endif // APSTUDIO_INVOKED

#endif // English (U.S.) resources
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#ifndef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Generated from the TEXTINCLUDE 3 resource.
//

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#endif // not APSTUDIO_INVOKED

yesnaud

ASKER

Hi, it doesn't seem to find this function:

IsDialogMessage

Y.

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

BSoeters

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