Resizing a pane in a CStatusBar to fit the text I want to display

ROconnor

Resizing a pane in a CStatusBar to fit the text I want to display

Visual Studio100
I want the width of the pane in a CStatus Bar to be dynamic and resize based

on the string it is displaying. Visual Studio 6 has this behavior in its

status bar where the Line and Column number are displayed.

I see how to change the width of the pane using the SetPaneInfo method. My

question is how to calculate the width. If I have the string, how do I know

what width to set? Does it depend on the resolution of the screen displaying

the APP (experimentation shows it is not)? Does it depend on the font used

in the window and is this derived from the Desktop Display settings? In a

perfect world there would be a method I could call that returned the width

(in the units that SetPaneInfo requires) that took a character string as an

input. E.G.

int width = CWND::WidthOfString("this is the string to display");

m_wnd.SetPaneInfo(index,id,style, width);

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Tom

Registered User

Wed Sep 29 19:31:00 CDT 2004

Re:Resizing a pane in a CStatusBar to fit the text I want to display

Create a CFont object with the font information. You can use CWnd::GetFont

to get a pointer to the CFont object.

CString csText;

csText = This is my string";

CFont *pFont = m_wndStatusbar.GetFont();

CFont *pFontDC = dc.SelectObject(pFont);

CSize size = dc.GetTextExtent(csText);

HTH,

Tom

"empirixwhand" <empirixwhand@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

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I want the width of the pane in a CStatus Bar to be dynamic and resize

based

on the string it is displaying. Visual Studio 6 has this behavior in its

status bar where the Line and Column number are displayed.

I see how to change the width of the pane using the SetPaneInfo method.

My

question is how to calculate the width. If I have the string, how do I

know

what width to set? Does it depend on the resolution of the screen

displaying

the APP (experimentation shows it is not)? Does it depend on the font

used

in the window and is this derived from the Desktop Display settings? In a

perfect world there would be a method I could call that returned the width

(in the units that SetPaneInfo requires) that took a character string as

an

input. E.G.

int width = CWND::WidthOfString("this is the string to display");

m_wnd.SetPaneInfo(index,id,style, width);