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When the page container is docked at top or bottom, the item text inside CextShortcutListWnd class is displayed vertically. If I apply __ESLW_HORIZONTAL style, items appear vertically.  I want both the items and their texts appear horizontally when docked at top or bottom. 

The control shold look like this:

Icon ItemText      Icon ItemText     Icon ItemText      Icon ItemText

OR

 Icon               Icon               Icon              Icon              

ItemText       ItemText       ItemText      ItemText 

How can I do this?

OK, yes I use a CExtControlBar and a CExtPageContainer inside it. In fact my problem is not with docking. Let’s forget the previous posts. I’ll try to explain what I want from the beginning.
In your PageContainer sample application, there is a ’Horizontal page container’ option under View menu. When it is checked, a pagecontainer is created horizontally on top of the window. And it looks like this, right?:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/641/horizontalpc.jpg/

Icon texts in CextShortcutListWnd are placed vertically, at the right side of their icons, right?

What I’m asking is that how can I put the Icons’ texts below their icons for Horizontal Page Container, like this:

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/2852/pagecontainerh.jpg

I hope I could make myself clear this time.

Thank you for the second screen shot. But unfortunately, the CExtShortcutListWnd control does not support such horizontal item layout. But you can override the CExtShortcutListWnd::OnShortcutListItemMeasure(), CExtShortcutListWnd::OnShortcutListEraseItem() and CExtShortcutListWnd::OnShortcutListDrawItem() methods to implement a vertical item layout in a horizontally oriented CExtShortcutListWnd control. You can even apply the ready to use code from the original methods.

When the pagecontainer is docked at top or bottom, it should look like this;

img811.imageshack.us/img811/2852/pagecontainerh.jpg

And when docked at left or right, it should look like this;

img535.imageshack.us/img535/2338/pagecontainerv.jpg

The CExtPageContainerWnd control is not dockable. It never changes its layout and orientation. If your project creates a CExtControlBar dockable control bar and some CExtPageContainerWnd inside it, then the control bar only resizes the page container to cover all bar’s client area. Prof-UIS does not change the page container’s layout when a control bar is re-docked. Your project should contain some lines of code which change this layout. You should find these lines of code and remove them.

Could you send us a test (or your real) project which reproduces this behavior?