CMFCStatusBar pane text

Drew

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Oct 28, 2009, 12:19:22 PM10/28/09

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I'm in the process of changing the look of our app to use the new feature
pack controls and have chosen a project of style Visual Studio 2005. I've
added some panes to the CMFCStatusBar in addition to the default provided:
CAPS, OVR, etc. The text in my panes all appear gray and I'm trying to
figure out to make their text black. I've tried adding:

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyMainWnd, CMDIFrameWndEx)
ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI_RANGE(ID_FIRST_PANE, ID_LAST_PANE,
OnUpdateStatusBarPanes)
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

void CMyMainWnd::OnUpdateStatusBarPanes(CCmdUI* pCmdUI)
{
m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneTextColor(pCmdUI->m_nID - ID_FIRST_PANE,
COLORREF(RGB(255, 255, 255)));
}

which is as close to an answer as I've found by searching, specifically:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/d931dd86-64dc-4372-89bf-4ccb5bd1601d

which I consider less than helpful.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Drew

Jonathan Wood

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Oct 28, 2009, 1:48:06 PM10/28/09

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This sort of setting is not normally related to the update mechanism of MFC,
although I can see instances where it could be.

I stuck the following line near the end of CMainFrame::OnCreate():

m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneTextColor(0, RGB(255, 0, 0));

And, sure enough, the text in the first pane appears red.

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Drew

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Oct 28, 2009, 5:46:32 PM10/28/09

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> This sort of setting is not normally related to the update mechanism of
> MFC, although I can see instances where it could be.

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I agree, but refer to the link I posted where a moderator from MSFT marked
the issue I described as answered when the ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI(_RANGE) was
proposed.
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>
> I stuck the following line near the end of CMainFrame::OnCreate():
>
> m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneTextColor(0, RGB(255, 0, 0));
>
> And, sure enough, the text in the first pane appears red.

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I tried the way you suggested:

m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneTextColor(pCmdUI->m_nID - ID_FIRST_PANE,
COLORREF(RGB(0, 0, 0)));

at the end of CMainFrame::Create() and sure enough the text in the panes was
black until my view opened at which point it turned gray again. So there's
something else going on here.

Thanks,
Drew
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Jonathan Wood

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Oct 28, 2009, 10:25:59 PM10/28/09

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"Drew" <d...@dam.com> wrote:

> I tried the way you suggested:
>
> m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneTextColor(pCmdUI->m_nID - ID_FIRST_PANE,
> COLORREF(RGB(0, 0, 0)));
>
> at the end of CMainFrame::Create() and sure enough the text in the panes
> was black until my view opened at which point it turned gray again. So
> there's something else going on here.

Interesting. Are you sure all your previous code was disabled?

My code changes the first pane's text to red and it stays red when I open
various views and switch between them. I haven't spent enough time on this
to know what the issue is but now I wonder if you have some other code doing
something that prevents your app from working like mine.

hgn

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Oct 29, 2009, 10:46:34 AM10/29/09

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To make the text on the statusbar black you just have to add

pCmdUI->Enable( true );

Drew

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Oct 30, 2009, 12:46:27 PM10/30/09

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Yes, thank you, that works.

Drew

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