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From: epperson@adobe.COM (Mark Epperson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Statusline Window in Application using MDI
Keywords: MDI
Message-ID: <16463@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 91 06:30:35 GMT
References: <1978@nixsin.UUCP>
Reply-To: epperson@adobe.UUCP (Mark Epperson)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Statusline Window in Application using MDI
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In article <1978@nixsin.UUCP> bieniekb@nixsin.UUCP (Beate Bieniek-Moores) writes:
>
>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...
>
>
Try calling MoveWindow(hwndMDIClient, ..... ) AFTER processing the
WM_SIZE message for the frame proc.  works just fine.

Mark Epperson
	
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Statusline Window in Application using MDI
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In article <1978@nixsin.UUCP> bieniekb@nixsin.UUCP (Beate Bieniek-Moores) writes:
>
>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...
>
>
Try calling MoveWindow(hwndMDIClient, ..... ) AFTER processing the
WM_SIZE message for the frame proc.  works just fine.

Mark Epperson