[RESOLVED] CMFCToolBar issue: Can't change title?

Visual Studio 2013. C++.

Created a blank, SDI MFC app.

I added a new CMFCToolBar (by hand, didn't use a wizard)

It docks OK. The commands work OK. It renders OK. No problems there.

In the code, attempting to set the window text of this toolbar has no effect. The title bar text is always "Standard". I triple triple triple checked to make sure I don't have any resource ID conflicts. In a small app as this, it was pretty easy to verify this.

The toolbar also does not show in the menu illustrated in the screenshot. (The bottom, undocked toolbar should be titled "My Page Bar" and I think it should show up in the popup menu.)
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I know I'm probably missing a simple step somewhere, but I haven't seen it. It looks like its getting mixed up with the Standard Toolbar resource ID somewhere but I could see nothing in the .rc or resource.h files. A search yielded a few results with similar problems, but I've had no luck finding out what I'm missing.

Hope someone can help.

Show your code to implement the toolbars.

Declared as
CMFCToolBar m_wndPageBar; // MainFrm.h

In...
int CMainFrame::OnCreate

Code:

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      if (!m_wndPageBar.CreateEx(this, TBSTYLE_FLAT, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBRS_TOP | CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_TOOLTIPS | CBRS_FLYBY | CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC) ||
                !m_wndPageBar.LoadToolBar(IDR_PAGEBAR))
        {
                TRACE0("Failed to create page toolbar\n");
                return -1;      // fail to create
        }

// Setting title
        CString pageBarTitle;
        bNameValid = pageBarTitle.LoadString(IDS_PAGEBAR_TITLE);
        ASSERT(bNameValid);
        m_wndPageBar.SetWindowText(pageBarTitle);

// Docking Behavior
        m_wndMenuBar.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
        m_wndToolBar.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
        m_wndPageBar.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY); // Here
        EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
        DockPane(&m_wndMenuBar);
        DockPane(&m_wndToolBar);
        DockPane(&m_wndPageBar); // Here

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And what ID did you set for m_wndPageBar? The default one (the same that for m_wndToolBar?
Try to set some unique ID for m_wndPageBar!

Is there another source of IDs that I may have overlooked?

// From Resource.h
//
#define IDR_MAINFRAME 128 // This is loaded (m_wndToolBar)
#define IDR_MAINFRAME_256 129

// Below is mine
#define IDR_PAGEBAR 310 // PageBar here..
#define ID_CANCEL_EDIT_CNTR 32768 // Btn Commands
#define ID_PAGE_FIRST 32772
#define ID_PAGE_PREV 32773
#define ID_PAGE_NEXT 32774
#define ID_PAGE_LAST 32775
#define ID_PAGE_ADD 32776
#define ID_PAGE_DELETE 32777

Quote:

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Originally Posted by mega Kluge

Is there another source of IDs that I may have overlooked?

// From Resource.h
//
#define IDR_MAINFRAME 128 // This is loaded (m_wndToolBar)
#define IDR_MAINFRAME_256 129

// Below is mine
#define IDR_PAGEBAR 310 // PageBar here..

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And where and how do you set this IDR_PAGEBAR to the toolbar? :confused:

These are the only two references to IDR_PAGEBAR in the entire solution:

Code:

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mainfrm.cpp(101, 29): !m_wndPageBar.LoadToolBar(IDR_PAGEBAR))
resource.h(110, 9): #define IDR_PAGEBAR                    310

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And in mainfrm.cpp, it is set/loaded here:

Code:

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        if (!m_wndPageBar.CreateEx(this, TBSTYLE_FLAT, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBRS_TOP | CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_TOOLTIPS | CBRS_FLYBY | CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC) ||
                !m_wndPageBar.LoadToolBar(IDR_PAGEBAR))
        {
                TRACE0("Failed to create page toolbar\n");
                return -1;      // fail to create
        }

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I already saw it.
Therefore I wrote you in the post#4:
Try to set some unique ID for m_wndPageBar!
Well, the "unique" in this context should mean IDR_PAGEBAR.
See MSDN article CToolbat::CreateEx and the last parameter of this method.

THANK YOU! That solved it 100%!

I changed the call to:

Code:

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        if (!m_wndPageBar.CreateEx(this, TBSTYLE_FLAT, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBRS_TOP | CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_TOOLTIPS | CBRS_FLYBY | CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC, 0, IDR_PAGEBAR) ||
                !m_wndPageBar.LoadToolBar(IDR_PAGEBAR))
        {
                TRACE0("Failed to create page toolbar\n");
                return -1;      // fail to create
        }

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Rating your post highest and marking this as resolved. Thank you so much for your time. Much appreciated.

You are welcome! :)