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Hello,

I am in the final stages of evaluating Prof-UIS for commerical use and have found one lingering issue that I can’t seem to resolve.

Based on the examples given with Prof-UIS, I am using a CExtControlBar as a container for a CScrollView. The contents of the CScrollView are not strictly speaking part of my document but is used to display and edit information usable for all documents of the application I am working on. Thus placing the CScrollView inside a CExtControlBar seems to be the proper thing to do. Thos control bar, and it’s embedded CScrollView, are only to be used when a document in my MDI application is not open.

The CExtControlBar and the CScrollView are created as follows:

--> IN MainFrm.cpp <---

if( !theContainer.Create( _T("the Container"), this, ID_VIEW_THECONTAINER))
{
        TRACE0("Failed to create theContainer\n");
        return -1; // fail to create
}

and later

BOOL theAnswer    = theDesigner->Create        (theRect, &theContainer, ID_DESIGNER);

theDesigner is of class Designer, which is derived from CScrollView.
The variable theContainer is of class CExtControlBar.


The controlBar theContainer is set to be floating and initially hidden.

When I need theDesigner to be visible, I cause theContainer to appear by using ShowControlBar.

When theContainer first appears, the contents of the CScrollView contained withing the CExtControlBar are slightly jumbled and out of place. If I resize the control bar, even a little, everything looks and act properly.

Is this a bug in Prof UIS or am I not doing something? I really want the CExtControlBar, upon being made visible, to look proper. I am guessing that something is not being properly activated or initialized upon creation, only to have the activation or initiaization occuring during a resizing of the CExtControlBar.

TIA

Harvey

Dear Harvey,

We cannot yet make any conclusion about the contents of CScrollView that is jumbled up in CExtControlBar. For example, some control bars in the ProfStudio application also have scrolling contents and we cannot say that they show a similar behavior. Could you send us a test project that demonstrates this problem so that we can find out what causes it?