Rebar not visible

I am making a paint program and I created a toolbar with my own images that works fine but I tried adding a rebar to it everything compiles fine but only the toolbar shows up not the rebar.

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#define NUMBUTTONS 3

HWND CreateToolBar(HWND hWndParent)
{
       
        TBBUTTON buttons[NUMBUTTONS];

        HIMAGELIST himlToolBar = ImageList_LoadImage(
                m_hInst,
                MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_BITMAP1),
                16,
                1,
                RGB(255, 0, 255),
                IMAGE_BITMAP,
                LR_CREATEDIBSECTION);

       
        hWndToolBar = CreateWindowEx(0, TOOLBARCLASSNAME, NULL,WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE |TBSTYLE_FLAT  , 0, 0, 1, 1, hWndParent, NULL, m_hInst, NULL);

        SendMessage(hWndToolBar, TB_SETIMAGELIST, 0, (LPARAM)himlToolBar);

        for(int i = 0; i < NUMBUTTONS; ++i)
        {
                buttons[i].iBitmap = i;
                buttons[i].fsState = TBSTATE_ENABLED;
                buttons[i].fsStyle = TBSTYLE_BUTTON;
                buttons[i].dwData = 0L;
                buttons[i].iString = (INT_PTR)L"New";
                buttons[i].idCommand = 0;
        }

        SendMessage(hWndToolBar, TB_BUTTONSTRUCTSIZE, (WPARAM)sizeof(TBBUTTON), 0);

        SendMessage(hWndToolBar, TB_ADDBUTTONS, (WPARAM)NUMBUTTONS, (LPARAM)&buttons);

        SendMessage(hWndToolBar, TB_AUTOSIZE, 0, 0);

        return hWndToolBar;
}

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Code:

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HWND CreateRebar(HWND hWndOwner, HWND hWndToolbar)
{
        if(hWndToolbar == NULL)
        {
                return NULL;
        }

        INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX icex;
        icex.dwSize = sizeof(INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX);
        icex.dwICC = ICC_COOL_CLASSES | ICC_BAR_CLASSES;
        InitCommonControlsEx(&icex);

        hWndRebar = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW,
                REBARCLASSNAME,
                NULL,
                WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CLIPSIBLINGS |
                WS_CLIPCHILDREN | RBS_VARHEIGHT |
                CCS_NODIVIDER | RBS_BANDBORDERS,
                0, 0, 0, 0,
                hWndOwner,
                NULL,
                m_hInst,
                NULL);

        if(!hWndRebar)
        {
                return NULL;
        }

        REBARBANDINFO rbBand = { sizeof(REBARBANDINFO) };
        rbBand.fMask =
                RBBIM_STYLE
                | RBBIM_TEXT
                | RBBIM_CHILD
                | RBBIM_CHILDSIZE
                | RBBIM_SIZE;
        rbBand.fStyle = RBBS_CHILDEDGE | RBBS_GRIPPERALWAYS;

        DWORD dwBtnSize = (DWORD)SendMessage(hWndToolbar, TB_GETBUTTONSIZE, 0, 0);

        rbBand.lpText = TEXT("");
        rbBand.hwndChild = hWndToolbar;
        rbBand.cyChild = LOWORD(dwBtnSize);
        rbBand.cxMinChild = NUMBUTTONS * HIWORD(dwBtnSize);
        rbBand.cyMinChild = LOWORD(dwBtnSize);

        rbBand.cx = 0;

        SendMessage(hWndRebar, RB_INSE*****D, (WPARAM)-1, (LPARAM)&rbBand);

        return (hWndRebar);

}

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HRESULT InitializeWindow(HINSTANCE hInstance)
{

    HRESULT hr = S_OK;
        m_hInst = hInstance;
    // Create WIC factory
    hr = CoCreateInstance(
        CLSID_WICImagingFactory,
        NULL,
        CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
        IID_PPV_ARGS(&m_pIWICFactory)
        );

    // Register window class
    WNDCLASS wcex;
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
       
        wcex.style        = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
                wcex.lpfnWndProc  = (WNDPROC)WndProc;
        wcex.cbClsExtra    = 0;
        wcex.cbWndExtra    = sizeof(LONG_PTR);
        wcex.hInstance    = hInstance;
                wcex.hIcon        = NULL;
        wcex.hCursor      = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
                wcex.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)::GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
                wcex.lpszMenuName  = 0;
        wcex.lpszClassName = L"WICViewerGDI";
     


     

        hr = RegisterClass(&wcex) ? S_OK : E_FAIL;
    }

    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {

               
        // Create window
        ghMainWnd = CreateWindow(
            L"WICViewerGDI",
            L"PaintProgram",
            WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE,
            CW_USEDEFAULT,
            CW_USEDEFAULT,
            1920,
            1080,
            NULL,
                        NULL,
            hInstance,
            0
            );

                hr = ghMainWnd ? S_OK : E_FAIL;

                ShowWindow(ghMainWnd, SW_SHOW);
                UpdateWindow(ghMainWnd);

               
    }

        CreateRebar(ghMainWnd, hWndToolBar);
        CreateToolBar(ghMainWnd);
       
    return hr;
}

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I cant seem to figure it out any help is appreciated.

Did you debug your code?
What does the CreateRebar() function return? Is it, perhaps, NULL? Then you have to call GetLastError to get the extended error information.

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Originally Posted by VictorN

Did you debug your code?
What does the CreateRebar() function return? Is it, perhaps, NULL? Then you have to call GetLastError to get the extended error information.

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I figured it out it was

Code:

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REBARBANDINFO rbBand = { sizeof(REBARBANDINFO) };

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the msdn example I followed stated to do it this way but it is older code and someone stated it has to be done like this

Code:

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REBARBANDINFO rbBand = { sizeof(REBARBANDINFO_V3_SIZE) };

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when used on operating system greater than XP because it doesn't return the same value.

also I had to set the REBARBANDINFOS'S cbsize variable to REBARBANDINFO_V3_SIZE.

I swear everytime I follow an example on msdn I always have to spend hours trying to fix the code because it is all older code.



Thanks anyway.