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How do I use CMFCRebar to produce an acceptable look and feel?

I am trying to use some classes from the MFC Feature Pack to improve the look & feel of my MFC application.

In my application, I use one CReBar object to dock three different toolbars. I have updated the class of this object to use CMFCReBar, but it doesn´t look good when using some visual styles.

It seems there's a problem in the Feature Pack because it happens even with the RebarTest example deployed with package.

This is a screenshot of the example application just changing the visual style to Office 2007 (using the app. menu not by code):

Screenshot of RebarTest example application http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/1057/rebartestep5.png

Has anybody successfully used CMFCReBar? Is there any other way to achieve the same without using it?

Solution

  • Paul DiLascia wrote a class to lock the CToolBar, I used it to create this class which will work on CMFCToolbar. And you can copy it to do exactly the same sort of thing for CMFCMenuBar - just change MFCToolBar to MFCMenuBar and you're done.

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    class CLockedMFCToolBar : public CMFCToolBar
{
public:
    CLockedMFCToolBar() : CMFCToolBar() {}

protected:
    LRESULT CLockedMFCToolBar::WindowProc(UINT msg, WPARAM wp, LPARAM lp)
    {
        if ((msg==WM_LBUTTONDOWN || msg==WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK))
        {
            // Got click or double-click and toolbar is locked: if mouse in "dead
            // zone" then ignore the message--don't pass to control bar
            CPoint pt(lp);
            if (OnToolHitTest(pt, NULL) == -1)
                return 0; // return without handling: bypass control bar dragging!
        }
        // pass unhandled messages subclassed window--this is important!*/
        return CMFCToolBar::WindowProc(msg, wp, lp);
    }
};


//////////////////////////////
// in CMainFrame declaration
protected:
    CLockedMFCMenuBar m_wndMenuBar;
    CLockedMFCToolBar m_wndToolBar1;
    CLockedMFCToolBar m_wndToolBar2;


////////////////////////////
// in CMainFrame::OnCreate
if (!m_wndToolBar1.CreateEx(this, TBSTYLE_FLAT, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBRS_TOP | CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_TOOLTIPS | CBRS_FLYBY | CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC) ||
    !m_wndToolBar1.LoadToolBar(theApp.m_bHiColorIcons ? IDR_MAINFRAME_256 : IDR_MAINFRAME))
{
    TRACE0("Failed to create toolbar\n");
    return -1;      // fail to create
}

if (!m_wndToolBar2.CreateEx(this, TBSTYLE_FLAT, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBRS_TOP | CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_TOOLTIPS | CBRS_FLYBY | CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC) ||
    !m_wndToolBar2.LoadToolBar(theApp.m_bHiColorIcons ? IDR_MAINFRAME_256 : IDR_MAINFRAME))
{
    TRACE0("Failed to create toolbar\n");
    return -1;      // fail to create
}

EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
m_wndMenuBar.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
m_wndToolBar1.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
m_wndToolBar2.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
DockPane(&m_wndMenuBar);
DockPane(&m_wndToolBar2);
DockPane(&m_wndToolBar1);
DockPaneLeftOf(&m_wndToolBar1, &m_wndToolBar2);

m_wndMenuBar.SetPaneStyle(m_wndMenuBar.GetPaneStyle() &
            ~(CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_BORDER_TOP | CBRS_BORDER_BOTTOM | CBRS_BORDER_LEFT | CBRS_BORDER_RIGHT));
m_wndToolBar1.SetPaneStyle(m_wndToolBar1.GetPaneStyle() &
            ~(CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_BORDER_TOP | CBRS_BORDER_BOTTOM | CBRS_BORDER_LEFT | CBRS_BORDER_RIGHT));
m_wndToolBar2.SetPaneStyle(m_wndToolBar2.GetPaneStyle() &
            ~(CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_BORDER_TOP | CBRS_BORDER_BOTTOM | CBRS_BORDER_LEFT | CBRS_BORDER_RIGHT));