I would like to display a progress bar in my status bar next to a string of text like
"Processing..." <here the progress bar>
For this reason I tried to calculate the width of the string using

m_wndStatusBar.GetDC()->GetTextExtent(str);




However, the font selected in the device context of the status bar doesn't seem to be the font of the displayed string. GetTextExtent returns a too large value.

Who can help???