Re: CMFCStatusBar pane text

From:

"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:48:06 -0600

Message-ID:

<Ox5bQb$VKHA.844@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>

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.

"Drew" <dam@dam.com> wrote in message
news:OTXY1q#VKHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

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

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