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HOWTO: How to Create a Recessed Status Bar Area

Article ID: 132110

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006

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This article was previously published under Q132110

SUMMARY

To implement a sunken or recessed border around the first pane of the status bar, you need to have SBPS_STRETCH style set for this pane.

MORE INFORMATION

This style can be set immediately after you create the status bar in the CMainFrame::OnCreate handler of your Appwizard-generated application. Add the following call to SetPaneInfo in the CMainFrame::OnCreate handler: 
   int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
   {
   // Code generated by the framework

    m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneInfo( 0, m_wndStatusBar.GetItemID( 0 ),
           SBPS_STRETCH, NULL );
   }
Here m_wndStatusBar is the CStatusBar member variable of the CMainFrame class, and CStatusBar::GetItemID() returns the ID of the first pane.

NOTE: Only one pane of the status bar can have this style set.

REFERENCES

For additional information on this style, please see CStatusBar::SetPaneInfo() in the Foundation Classes Help file.

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