any secret behind Status Bar?

[xiahan]

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.elseif uMsg == WM_SIZE

        invoke SendMessage,hToolBar,TB_AUTOSIZE,0,0

        m2m caW, lParam[0]  ; client area width
        m2m caH, lParam[2]  ; client area height

        invoke GetWindowRect,hStatus,ADDR Rct
        mov eax, Rct.bottom
        sub eax, Rct.top
        sub caH, eax
        sub caH,120

        invoke MoveWindow,hStatus,0,caH,caW,39,TRUE no matter how i change the paramter to the call of MoveWindow, when resize ,the status bar is still at the client area bottom , holds the width of caW.

[hutch--]

xiahan,

A status bar is designed to stay at the bottom of the window client area. If you want a window to do otherwise, create your own with a new WNDCLASSEX structure and give it whatever characteristics you like. It will work correctly with MoveWindow() or SetWindowPos().

[dedndave]

you can locate the status bar anywhere you like if you use CreateWindowEx to create it (i am pretty sure, at least)
use the predefined system class...

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szStatusBarClass db 'msctls_statusbar32',0

but - you have to handle WM_SIZE, too   :P

use WS_CHILD or WS_VISIBLE style

[xiahan]

Thanks hutch-- and dedndave  it seems every problem i met during the explore of masm can be solved by experienced guys(like you)  in this forum immediately and patiently, it realy makes me feel good! :lol

[dedndave]

lol
well - i learned that the hard way
it wasn't by design   :P