center text in title bar of app.

[JensB]

Hi I want to center the title text of my application (mfc) in the title bar. Now it is positioned left. Anyone can help? Greetings Jens

[David Crow]

Good question. I suspect it's somewhat difficult, if it's even possible. You might end up creating a caption-less dialog (i.e., a dialog without the WS_CAPTION style), and then drawing your own caption in the client area of the dialog.

[JensB]

Good question.... Thank you for the appreciation ;) I'll see if i can fix the problem. If i have working code, i'll send it to you or post it somewhere on forum here. Best regards Jens

[Renjith Ramachandran]

i hav some idea.. title bar length = widhth of ur dialog/window u alos get the indent/width of the text then find the half of width find the haif of string place the string from halfof titlebar - half of text you can add the spaces in fornt of the string to place the text in the appropriate position. hope u got it.. CodeTheDreams();

[Joan M]

I have not done it... never... but...

**1.**filling the beggining of the string with spaces is not good if you change the font... because spaces size and font size changes also.

**2.**Deleting the caption and placing a label centered... is also a not standard thing that will make your app. to seem strange...

**3.**I'm sure that I've seen here in CP some pieces of code that show how to paint over the Caption bar (the typical thing of adding additional buttons and so on...).

I think that the best approach would be to leave the caption text blank and painting the desired text calculating the width of the text that will be displayed in pixels and... Take a look at the articles that show how to draw in the caption bar... then you can search for how to find the width of a outputted text via GDI calls. then it's only a matter of time, dividing in order to get the coordinate where to start painting and so on... Well, I have not done this and this is only theory, but it sounds good to me... PS: my english is not my best... Hope this helps...

[Hari Krishnan Noida]

Hi, there was a working code on the net called "shadcap", originally written by "Paul DiLascia", Q&A author of MSJ Magaizine. Please search it on the net. Actually, I downloaded the code, just few days back. I couldnt find the link now. Please search it on the net. Otherwise, I can send u the code.

[Lost User]

This is the way I would do it as well.

[Hari Krishnan Noida]

Hi, As, other members were suggested, its bit of complex coding. If you really want to do it, here is the link, and download "C++0697.exe" http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0697/c0697.aspx regards ~Hari~