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From: David Webber on 2 May 2008 10:56
Recently (28 April) I reported problems with toolbars and common-controls-6
in an MFC9.0 MDI application running under Vista.

The appearance is unsatisfactory even in a vanilla MDI app created with the
VS2008 app wizard.

The toolbar creation line it gives you is:

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))
{...

which results in the ugly appearance:

http://www.mozart.co.uk/questions/testproject-toolbar.gif

The cure is to replace TBSTYLE_FLAT by

TBSTYLE_FLAT|TBSTYLE_TRANSPARENT

and all is well:

http://www.mozart.co.uk/questions/testproject-toolbar-fixed.gif

It used to be (IIRC) that either of TBSTYLE_FLAT or TBSTYLE_TRANSPARENT had
the desired effect with common controls 6, but it appears that you need both
(or at least TBSTYLE_TRANSPARENT) in MFC9.0. I assume it is an oversight
in the app wizard code that it doesn't do this.

Anyway, that's one problem sorted (I hope). Onward and upward!

Dave
--
David Webber
Author of 'Mozart the Music Processor'
http://www.mozart.co.uk
For discussion/support see
http://www.mozart.co.uk/mozartists/mailinglist.htm

From: Ajay Kalra on 2 May 2008 14:59
On May 2, 10:56 am, "David Webber" <d...(a)musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk>
wrote:
> Recently (28 April) I reported problems with toolbars and common-controls-6
> in an MFC9.0 MDI application running under Vista.
>
> The appearance is unsatisfactory even in a vanilla MDI app created with the
> VS2008 app wizard.
>
> The toolbar creation line it gives you is:
>
> 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))
> {...
>
> which results in the ugly appearance:
>
> http://www.mozart.co.uk/questions/testproject-toolbar.gif
>
> The cure is to replace TBSTYLE_FLAT by
>
> TBSTYLE_FLAT|TBSTYLE_TRANSPARENT
>
> and all is well:
>
> http://www.mozart.co.uk/questions/testproject-toolbar-fixed.gif
>
> It used to be (IIRC) that either of TBSTYLE_FLAT or TBSTYLE_TRANSPARENT had
> the desired effect with common controls 6, but it appears that you need both
> (or at least TBSTYLE_TRANSPARENT) in MFC9.0. I assume it is an oversight
> in the app wizard code that it doesn't do this.
>
> Anyway, that's one problem sorted (I hope). Onward and upward!
>
> Dave
> --
> David Webber
> Author of 'Mozart the Music Processor'http://www.mozart.co.uk
> For discussion/support seehttp://www.mozart.co.uk/mozartists/mailinglist.htm


Looks like you are the one of the chosen ones who is brave enough to
try new functionality.

--
Ajay
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