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I have a CExtToolControlBar embedded as a control in a dialog.

I want to add a button with a text (just like the UI Theme selectors in the FunnyBars example). The associated command does NOT exist in a menu anywhere, so cannot rely on getting any info from the cmdmgr, and therefore InsertButton does not work.

Could you provide a simple example on how to do this?

Thanks in advance

First of all, you need to allocate a new command in the command manager before using it in the toolbar button:

UINT nCmdID = 10000; // if zero, then free ID will be found automatically

CExtCmdItem * pCmdItem =

       g_CmdManager->CmdAllocPtr

              "your command profile name",

              nCmdID

              );

Now you have a valid registered command which has no icon nor text for menu/toolbar/tooltip/status tip assigned. We will assign only text for a toolbar here:

pCmdItem->m_sToolbarText = _T("text");

You can also assign tooltip:

pCmdItem->m_sTipTool = _T("tip text");

Now you can insert the button into a toolbar:

m_wndToolBar.InsertButton(

              nPos, // if -1, then append to end

              nCmdID

              )