Thread: Status bar in Dialog Box

OK, I'm only posting this because you have to finish by tomorrow and I'm going. I suggest you think about it a bit more before reading on. MoveWindow is irrelevant. The important fact is that GetDlgItem(hwnd, ID_PROGRESS) is failing after the call to SetParent(). Why?


























After you call SetParent(), hwnd is no longer the parent of ID_PROGRESS. Therefore:

Code:

GetDlgItem(hwnd,ID_PROGRESS)

will fail. The new parent is the status bar so we have to use that in the call to GetDlgItem with the equivalent of:

Code:

GetDlgItem(GetDlgItem(hwnd, ID_STATUS), ID_PROGRESS)

Here is the code that I used:

Code:

		case WM_INITDIALOG:
		{
			RECT rc;
			HWND hwndStatus = GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, ID_STATUS);
			HWND hwndProgress = GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, ID_PROGRESS);

			SetParent(hwndProgress, hwndStatus);
			SendMessage(hwndProgress, PBM_SETPOS, 50, 0);
			GetClientRect(hwndStatus, &rc);
			MoveWindow(hwndProgress, rc.left + 1, rc.top + 1, rc.right - 2, rc.bottom - 2, TRUE);
			return TRUE;
		}

		case WM_SIZE:
		{
			RECT rc;
			HWND hwndStatus = GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, ID_STATUS);
			HWND hwndProgress = GetDlgItem(hwndStatus, ID_PROGRESS);

			SendMessage(hwndStatus, WM_SIZE, wParam, lParam);
			GetClientRect(hwndStatus, &rc);
			MoveWindow(hwndProgress, rc.left + 1, rc.top + 1, rc.right - 2, rc.bottom - 2, TRUE);
			break;
		}

and the RC contents:

Code:

    CONTROL         "", ID_STATUS, STATUSCLASSNAME, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 0, 0, 0, 0
    CONTROL         "", ID_PROGRESS, PROGRESS_CLASS, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 0, 0, 100, 10

yep thanks, that looks like thats it!, ive got a question, i just want the progress bar in one part of the status bar, i mean i have it in all of it, but i want to keep my status bar in three pieces and in one piece will be some text, the next the progress bar, and the other more text, is there a function like SB_SET or something to put it in the second part?

nevermind i think i might have gotten it, sorry! and thanks!

im trying to get the progress bar to move, but it wont, heres what i got

Code:

 SendMessage(GetDlgItem((GetDlgItem(hwnd,ID_STATUS_SEARCH)),ID_PROGRESS),PBM_SETSTEP,(WPARAM)10,0);

		  SendMessage(GetDlgItem((GetDlgItem(hwnd,ID_STATUS_SEARCH)),ID_PROGRESS),PBM_STEPIT,0,0);

Ok, im working with the progress bar, is there a way to make the timer start a specific time, lets say when the user clicks a button, and then make it stop when when the function is done instead of making it work for a certain amount of time? like instead of putting a 5 second lapse at 5000 make it go until a function is done?