mfc remove default toolbar

Question

I've making simple desktop game in mfc for school project, I've managed to make my app be full screen and to remove menu bar but I can't find out how to remove default built in toolbar from my app or status bar. I tried everything that came across my mind...is there some kind of get function to call from your CWnd object to retrieve toolbar and status bar?

Answer 1

The creation of ToolBar and StatusBar is inside the CMainFrame class. You can easily remove them if you do not need them as follows:

int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
    if (CFrameWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
    return -1;

    // *** creation of ToolBar starts, just remark/delete the whole block if you dont't want it
    if (!m_wndToolBar.CreateEx(this, TBSTYLE_FLAT, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBRS_TOP
        | CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_TOOLTIPS | CBRS_FLYBY | CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC) ||
        !m_wndToolBar.LoadToolBar(IDR_MAINFRAME))
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create toolbar\n");
        return -1;      // fail to create
    }
    // *** creation of ToolBar  ends -------------------------------------------------------

    // *** creation of StatusBar starts, just remark/delete the whole block if you dont't want it
    if (!m_wndStatusBar.Create(this) ||
        !m_wndStatusBar.SetIndicators(indicators,
          sizeof(indicators)/sizeof(UINT)))
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create status bar\n");
        return -1;      // fail to create
    }
    // *** creation of StatusBar ends -------------------------------------------------------

    // *** you have to remark/delete these lines too, if you removed the ToolBar above
    m_wndToolBar.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
    EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
    DockControlBar(&m_wndToolBar);
    // *** ToolBar extra ends -------------------------------------------------------

    return 0;

}