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rajeev82

Hi all, Instead of opening a Static control(which is subclassed) in a Dialog box,i want to open it in the Mainframe window. But when i create a variable of the class(subclassed) in the MainFrame(derived from CFrameWnd)and call the Create(with all right parameters) function the control is not visible in the Mainframe window :(( i'm not able to figure out the reason :zzz: y itz not showing up.It'll be really great if someone can help me out in this. Thanks in advance, rajeev

Viorel

When you create the control with Create, be sure the WS_VISIBLE window style is specified, for instance:

myStatic.Create("Test", WS_BORDER | WS_VISIBLE, CRect(30,30,100,100), this, 12345);

rajeev82

well all those properties have been set properly but still i'm not able to get it right.. -- modified at 9:55 Friday 9th June, 2006

Viorel

Is your variable for static control defined as a class member, or as a local variable in CMainFrame::OnCreate? In order to work, you have to have a line like CMyStatic mMyStatic; within frame class declaration (in *.h file), and a line like mMyStatic.Create(...) somewhere at the end of CMainFrame::OnCreate function. Where are you creating the control?

Cedric Moonen

What type of project are you using ? SDI or MDI ? If it's SDI, I think you have to create it on the view, and not on the mainframe.

Cédric Moonen Software developer
Charting control

rajeev82

its an SDI application.... the code i've used is CLed m_led; ///declared in mainframe.h m_led.Create(...);// in the OnCretae of mainframe.cpp here CLed is a class derived from CStatic which gives some special features to a static control...

Cedric Moonen

Did you read and tried the solution that people gave you ? I'm almost sure that Viorel got the point. Did you tried it ?

Cédric Moonen Software developer
Charting control