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From: bieniekb@nixsin.UUCP (Beate Bieniek-Moores)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Statusline Window in Application using MDI
Keywords: MDI
Message-ID: <1978@nixsin.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 91 11:40:23 GMT
Organization: Nixdorf Regional HQ Pte Ltd, Singapore
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Hello fellow Windows Programmer!

Does anybody know how the Windows File Manager sets up the status line
window positioned at the bottom of the frame window?

I wrote a program doing this without MDI and it works fine (statusline
created as child window, processing of WM_SIZE messages of the
parent window etc.).

However, integrating these codes into a program using MDI leads to the
following problem:

The child windows can be moved over the statusline, covering it up. When
these child windows are moved away again, the statusline does not get
re-painted. I am really kind of blurr (this is Sing-lish) about this...


Thanks in advance for your help.

- Beate

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