Codejock Developer Community : Status bar changes? http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:52 +0000 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:57:04 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=13757 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Status bar changes? : I&#039;ve belatedly noticed a...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=13757&PID=46977&title=status-bar-changes#46977 Author: robin_l
Subject: 13757
Posted: 22 March 2009 at 6:57pm

I've belatedly noticed a change in the behaviour of the status bar--not sure when it appeared (12.0 / 12.1??) but it still applies to 13.0.0. The "old" behaviour is that initialising the status bars in the usual way with:

m_wndStatusBar.SetIndicators(indicators, sizeof(indicators)/sizeof(UINT))

resulted in the status panes being fixed in width to whatever size you had set for the intial text. The current behaviour is that changing the pane text resizes the pane so that the text fits.
 
Another change is that the "old" status bar, based on CStatusBar (I think), would take any text prefixed by "\t" and center it. The "new" behaviour is to treat this as a tab and offset the subsequent text.
 
If you wish to get the "old" behaviour then for each affected pane you need to do the following:
 

m_wndStatusBar.GetPane(i)->BestFit();

m_wndStatusBar.GetPane(i)->SetTextAlignment(DT_CENTER);

In addition, you need to strip out any "\t" entries in your status bar text.
 
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