Creating toolbar using CreateWindowEx()

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5 total messages Started by Renald Yazmir Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:52

#420

Author: Renald Yazmir
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:52

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Hello



I created a toolbar using CreateWindowEx() in MDI document.



..

dwStyle = WS_CHILD | TBSTYLE_WRAPABLE | TBSTYLE_FLAT | WS_BORDER;



// Create the toolbar.

 hWndToolbar = CreateWindowEx(

                                                            0,

                                                            TOOLBARCLASSNAME,

                                                            NULL,

                                                            dwStyle,

                                                            0, 0, 0, 0,

                                                            hWndParent,  // 
main frame window

                                                            NULL,

                                                            hInstance,

                                                            NULL);

..

return hWndToolbar; // it is not used anywhere



When I open a child window it does not know about existence of toolbar. The 
child window overlaps the toolbar.



How do make a child window aware of toolbar?

So when I drag a child window towards a toolbar it will stop when it hits a 
toolbar.



Thank you

Rony

Re: Creating toolbar using CreateWindowEx()

#421

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:39

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"Renald Yazmir" <renald@partmaker.com> wrote in message 
news:47fe6fee$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> When I open a child window it does not know about
> existence of toolbar. The child window overlaps the toolbar.
>
> How do make a child window aware of toolbar?
>
> So when I drag a child window towards a toolbar it will
> stop when it hits a toolbar.

Sounds like you are not resizing your main frame's MDICLIENT window to 
account for the toolbar.  MDI children are hosted inside the MDICLIENT 
window, not inside the main frame's window directly.


Gambit

Re: Creating toolbar using CreateWindowEx()

#423

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:47

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"Renald Yazmir" <renald@partmaker.com> wrote in message 
news:47fe7fad$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Can you tell me how to resize MDICLIENT to account for toolbar?

The fact that you are calling CreateWindowEx() manually, and posting this 
question to the .nativeapi group, suggests that you are creating your HWNDs 
using the Win32 API manually instead of using the VCL, is that right?  If 
so, then you would have had to call CreateWindow/Ex(..., 'MDICLIENT', ...) 
to create the MDICLIENT window first before you can create MDI child 
windows.  Simply pass the MDICLIENT's HWND to SetWindowPos() to move it 
around the main frame as needed.  MDI child windows cannot appear outside of 
the MDICLIENT's area.


Gambit

Re: Creating toolbar using CreateWindowEx()

#422

Author: Renald Yazmir
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:59

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Can you tell me how to resize MDICLIENT to account for toolbar?

Thank you
Rony.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
news:47fe7b08$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "Renald Yazmir" <renald@partmaker.com> wrote in message 
> news:47fe6fee$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> When I open a child window it does not know about
>> existence of toolbar. The child window overlaps the toolbar.
>>
>> How do make a child window aware of toolbar?
>>
>> So when I drag a child window towards a toolbar it will
>> stop when it hits a toolbar.
>
> Sounds like you are not resizing your main frame's MDICLIENT window to 
> account for the toolbar.  MDI children are hosted inside the MDICLIENT 
> window, not inside the main frame's window directly.
>
>
> Gambit
>

Re: Creating toolbar using CreateWindowEx()

#427

Author: Renald Yazmir
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:57

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It works.

Thank you very much!

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
news:47fe8b15@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "Renald Yazmir" <renald@partmaker.com> wrote in message 
> news:47fe7fad$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> Can you tell me how to resize MDICLIENT to account for toolbar?
>
> The fact that you are calling CreateWindowEx() manually, and posting this 
> question to the .nativeapi group, suggests that you are creating your 
> HWNDs using the Win32 API manually instead of using the VCL, is that 
> right?  If so, then you would have had to call CreateWindow/Ex(..., 
> 'MDICLIENT', ...) to create the MDICLIENT window first before you can 
> create MDI child windows.  Simply pass the MDICLIENT's HWND to 
> SetWindowPos() to move it around the main frame as needed.  MDI child 
> windows cannot appear outside of the MDICLIENT's area.
>
>
> Gambit
>

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