Re: Changing toolbar captions

From:
"David Webber" <dave@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:43:39 +0100
Message-ID:
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"Ajay" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2abfd7eb-d6b9-4c38-9d7b-2fbfa5430faa@n19g2000vba.googlegroups.com...

I am getting frustrated trying to change my toolbar captions (when the
user
decides he wants to see them in a different language)....


I dont exactly recall what I did but its not going to work the way you

are doing it. I remember doing GetParentFrame or something like that
(to get to CMiniDockFrame ??) and then changing the title. Run Spy++
to see the layout and then change the text of the parent. IIRC,
floating introduces another frame or something on those lines.<

Thanks Ajay. Brilliant!

The class is CMiniFrameWnd - one I hadn't come across before. You're spot
on: one of these is put round the toolbar when it is floated. Spy++ shows
me it, and after I have changed the CToolBar's caption, I can see the grey
area in the midddle is a window with the new caption, and what looks like
the frame is another window with the old caption!

More details are hard to find in the documentation. However
CControlBar::GetDockingFrame() is documented as returning a pointer to the
frame around a floating toolbar, so bingo! the following code does it:

    CToolBar pWndToolBar = ...

     pWndToolBar->SetWindowText( sCaption );

     // Now if this is floating, it has an associated
     // CMiniFrameWnd which has the caption bar. We
     // need to change its text too.
     // CControlBar::GetDockingFrame() is documented as
     // giving the CMiniFrameWnd as long as the toolbar
     // is floating. And so:

     if( pWndToolBar->IsFloating() )
     {
      CFrameWnd *pWndFrame = pWndToolBar->GetDockingFrame();
      if( pWndFrame ) pWndFrame->SetWindowText( sCaption );
     }

Simple when you know how!

I do love this news group!

Dave
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