How to disable the CAP NUM SCRL indicators in the status bar of a Windows C++ MFC app?

Question

Default MDI application in MS Visual C++ 2010 shows CAP, NUM, SCRL indicators in the lower right corner. These are not applicable for my application so would like to disable them.

Thanks, Eric

Answer 1

In your CMainFrame class you have this:

// CMainFrame

IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CMainFrame, CMDIFrameWnd)

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMainFrame, CMDIFrameWnd)
    ON_WM_CREATE()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

static UINT indicators[] =
{
    ID_SEPARATOR,           // status line indicator
    ID_INDICATOR_CAPS,
    ID_INDICATOR_NUM,
    ID_INDICATOR_SCRL,
};

The indicators array is used somewhere later like this:

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

Simply remove the ID_INDICATOR_CAPS, ID_INDICATOR_NUM and ID_INDICATOR_SCRL symbols at will.