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MFC, C++: Preventing a splitter window from being resized

Hello,

I am working on an MFC splitter frame application. I want to prevent the user from resizing the splitter window.

I've followed this old article on MSDN, which covers this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/02/c/

I can't even get the demo project to build in visual studio 2005 (I converted the VC 6 project). I get the following errors:

1>c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\msdnsplitter\nosize\mainfrm.cpp(22) : error C2440: 'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'UINT (__thiscall CMainFrame::* )(CPoint)' to 'LRESULT (__thiscall CWnd::* )(CPoint)'
1> Cast from base to derived requires dynamic_cast or static_cast
1>NoSize.cpp
1>StatLink.cpp
1>c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\msdnsplitter\nosize\statlink.cpp(27) : error C2440: 'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'UINT (__thiscall CStaticLink::* )(CPoint)' to 'LRESULT (__thiscall CWnd::* )(CPoint)'
1> Cast from base to derived requires dynamic_cast or static_cast
1>c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\msdnsplitter\nosize\statlink.cpp(123) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>View.cpp
1>Generating Code...
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\msdnsplitter\NoSize\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>NoSize - 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)

Could someone help me build the application, so that I can apply the same principle to my own application, or could someone suggest another way that I could prevent splitter resizing?
Regards,
Sternocera

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Zoppo,

That works, thanks. Whats going on here? Why was this necessary?

Regards,
Sternocera

Zoppo

I'm not sure, it seems there's a difference between the implementation and the MSDN description of ON_WM_NCHITTEST and OnNcHitTest

In MSDN for MFC8.0 they're both described to use a function which returns UINT:

MSDN:
ON_WM_NCHITTEST( ) afx_msg UINT OnNcHitTest( CPoint );

afx_msg UINT OnNcHitTest(
CPoint point
);

In code for MFC this differs:

#define ON_WM_NCHITTEST() \
      { WM_NCHITTEST, 0, 0, 0, AfxSig_l_p, \
            (AFX_PMSG)(AFX_PMSGW) \
            (static_cast< LRESULT (AFX_MSG_CALL CWnd::*)(CPoint) > (&ThisClass :: OnNcHitTest)) },

class CWnd
...
      afx_msg LRESULT OnNcHitTest(CPoint point);

UINT is an 'typedef unsigned int'
LRESULT is 'typedef LONG_PTR' which is a 'typedef _W64 long' (for 32-bit build)

So they differ too ...

I don't know why this is, sorry ...

The missing 'BOOL' even was no problem in VC6

Regards,

ZOPPO