status bar

[toby1909]

Hi, I have a main window and I want to put a status bar into it. How can I do that? And how can i put text into this bar?
Thanx.

[(TNT)]

Hey,


Firstly, include <comctrl.h> and link comctl32.lib


define the following under your headers:

#define ID_STATUSBAR       4997
HWND hWndStatus;

Then under where you create your main window, in winmain put this:

InitCommonControls();

hWndStatus = CreateWindowEx(0, STATUSCLASSNAME, NULL,
WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | SBARS_SIZEGRIP, 0, 0, 0, 0,
hWnd, (HMENU)ID_STATUSBAR, hInstance, NULL);

Then to add text to your status bar, this can go where suites you or ur prog...

case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
{
SetWindowText(hWndStatus, "La La La Status Bar Clicked");
}

Hope that helps,
TNT

[Stoned_Coder]

Go to msdn and search for CreateStatusWindow(). There will be information on its use and maybe some source to look at.

[toby1909]

thanx for all i'll try that