Re: CMFCStatusBar pane text

From:

"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:25:59 -0600

Message-ID:

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"Drew" <dam@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.

Thanks,
Drew
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"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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