create statusBar in dialog problem

[sujan.dasmahapatra]

I am trying to create a statusBar in the dialog but it's returning false. not creating the status bar please tell me whats going wrong in this. Thanks for any help. I am creating the status bar in the OnInitDialog() function

CStatusBar  m_wndStatusBar; // member variable in the dialog header.



BOOL CDlgsViewDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
	CDialog::OnInitDialog();
		if (!m_wndStatusBar.Create(this) ||
		!m_wndStatusBar.SetIndicators(indicators,
		  sizeof(indicators)/sizeof(UINT)))
	{
		TRACE0("Failed to create status bar\n");
		return FALSE;      // fail to create
	}

	m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneText(0,L"MainWindow Initialized");
}

it's returning false. please help me.

[ovidiucucu]

I've observed from your topics that you are trying to use CStatusBar, CToolBar as well as CView-derived classes in a dialog.
Although it's not impossible, you may have noticed that normally, they are not working as expected.
That's because they are designed to work in a frame window of an SDI/MDI framework and not in dialogs.

So, in a dialog use CStatusBarCtrl, CToolBarCtrl and not CControlBar-derved like CStatusBar or CToolBar.
Also, avoid CView-derived in dialogs.
That may look a little bit more complicated but it's the easier way to prevent further headaches.

[ovidiucucu]

Here is an example of using CStatusBarCtrl in a dialog.

class CMyDialog : public CDialog
{
   CStatusBarCtrl m_sbCtrl;
   void _CreateStatusBar();
   // ...
};

BOOL CMyDialog::OnInitDialog()
{
   CDialog::OnInitDialog();

   _CreateStatusBar();
   m_sbCtrl.SetText(_T("Baba Safta is ready"), 0, SBT_NOBORDERS);
   // ...
}

void CMyDialog::_CreateStatusBar()
{
   DWORD dwStyle = WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|CCS_BOTTOM|SBARS_SIZEGRIP;
   BOOL bRet = m_sbCtrl.Create(dwStyle, CRect(0,0,0,0), this, AFX_IDW_STATUS_BAR);
   ASSERT(bRet);

   m_sbCtrl.SetSimple(FALSE);
   const int nParts = 4;
   int pWidts[nParts] = {300, 350, 400, -1};
   m_sbCtrl.SetParts(nParts, pWidts);
}

void CMyDialog::OnSize(UINT nType, int cx, int cy) 
{
   CDialog::OnSize(nType, cx, cy);
   if(NULL != m_sbCtrl.m_hWnd)
   {
      m_sbCtrl.SendMessage(WM_SIZE, (WPARAM)nType, MAKELPARAM(cx, cy));
   }
}

Note: this is just a brief example.
You may want to modify/improve it, then have a look in MSDN Library: Using CStatusBarCtrl.

[sujan.dasmahapatra]

now it's working fine thanks for your help.