Toolbar with button controls

[Nathan Going]

I want to make a toolbar type window that has owner drawn button controls on it. I also need to be able to "stack" them on one side, either left or right, but those are two different issues. Figure 1 is the application I’m trying to mimic and I know it was written in Qt. notice the controls across the top of the main window and to bars across each view on either side of the splitter. I believe it should be possible to design a bar that I could use in all three places with little modification. Figure 2 is what I can figure to be the window structure I should use. Please how would you implement the toolbar I described? Thank you, Nathan

[Mark Salsbery]

Are you using MFC? If so, I personally use a CControlBar-derived class. Overriding CalcFixedLayout/CalcDynamicLayout makes it easy to position any controls (and/or individual CToolBars) and report the total size of the bar to MFC. There's also the CDialogBar if you prefer to work with a dialog resource as a control bar. Mark

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[vikas amin]

check this articles http://www.codeproject.com/KB/wtl/wtl4mfc3.aspx[^] http://www.codeproject.com/KB/toolbars/ctruecolortoolbar_update.aspx[^] there is a toolbar class for .net 3.0 & 3.5 but i dont think you want to use them

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modified on Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:33 PM

[Nathan Going]

What would be the best way to make that CControlBar-Derived class the full width of it's parent.

[Mark Salsbery]

Nathan Going wrote:

What would be the best way to make that CControlBar-Derived class the full width of it's parent.

I don't know the best way, but I use something like this:

CSize CMyControlBar::CalcFixedLayout(BOOL bStretch, BOOL bHorz)
{
// Get the parent's client window size
// in case we need that info to layout
// controls
CRect ParentClientRect;
GetParent()->GetClientRect(&ParentClientRect);

//
// calc the layout of all the controls here
// ...

int desiredheight = ...;

return CSize(ParentClientRect.Width(), desiredheight);
}

CSize CMyControlBar::CalcDynamicLayout(int nLength, DWORD dwMode)
{
return CalcFixedLayout(dwMode & LM_STRETCH, dwMode & LM_HORZ);
}

Mark

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java: