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X-Tools · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:18 am Post subject: window settext on status element

Hi,

why doesn't window settext work on status elements ?
I want to set the statusbar of my main window through child applications. Editboxes and Buttons are working fine, but statusbar not.

Thanks for your help.

Bye, Fabian

jules · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:04 pm Post subject:

Dunno, really. Probably because it is quite a complex control (you can have multiple text parts on a status.) Window settext just sends a windows message to the control, which worked fine with the controls that existed in the early days of Windows. So the problem is Microsoft not implementing the functionality to respond to this message in the newer controls that came out with Win95. There may be some other message you can use, specific to this control, which would do it.

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:06 pm Post subject:

There is a sendmessage to change the value of a statusbar, but I don't have it right here. I once used it while making my autocomplete code for the VDS IDE, so I could display extra information... Smile

vdsalchemist · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject:

X-Tools,
What is wrong with using Dialog Set? To set multiple panels on the Status bar use this.

X-Tools · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I want other apps (my child applications, mdi childs) to set the status element of the main application.
Until now I use memorymap for this, but it's too buggy.

Bye, Fabian

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:55 pm Post subject:

I think this should work... Smile

X-Tools · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 3:08 pm Post subject:

Hi Skit,

seems not to work.

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

Strange, it does work when you enter the window identifier of the VDS IDE statusbar... Confused

vdsalchemist · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject: