Re: MS MDI question

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From: Peter Haller
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:46

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In a previous article, wan@pollux.usc.edu (Qiang Wan) says:

>I started to write an MDI (Multiple Document Interface) application under
>MS Window 3.0, using Borland C++. I encountered the following problems:
>
>1. According to MS Windows reference manual pages on MDICREATESTRUCT,
> a child window in MDI has four valid window styles: WM_MINIMIZE,
> WM_MAXIMIZE, WM_HSCROLL, and WM_VSCROLL. The problem is that I could not
> get the scroll-bars to appear at all, while the minimize and maximize
> styles seem to work OK.
> The MS Windows programming guide shows some MDI child windows bearing
> scroll-bars. I wonder if people who have MS SDK package could verify for
> me if these scroll-bars were created by setting the window style in
> the MDICREATESTRUCT style field, or by calling CreateWindow's.
You must call SetScrollRange() with the ranges not equal to each other.
This forces the scroll bars to be drawn.

PCH
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