Re: Even though a floating toolbar is created well, all its toolbuttons
remain disabled
amitdedhia@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi
I am working on a MFC MDI application. Environment is VS2005.
I have derived a class from CToolBar and able to create and load it
successfully. The toolbar is NOT created in CMainFrame::OnCreate().
Instead it is created on a tab-switch event. The tab-switch event
handling is computationally higher and it takes around 2~3 seconds to
complete. The toolbar is visible and enabled properly for sometime.
However, at the end of the processing all the tool buttons are
disabled. (The toolbar it self is ok and I can drag it).
I checked to code and there is nothing in the code which explicitly
disables the tool buttons. I also handled UPDATE_COMMAND_UI event for
one the tool buttons. However the code never executes.
The UPDATE_COMMAND_UI messages are routed to the standard mainframe,
view and doc but not to other windows you may create. For example, they
don't work if the toolbar's parent is a dialog. The DLGCBR32 MFC sample
in MSDN shows how to get this working.
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