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Hi,

how do I tell when a CExtControlBar gets focus? WM_SETFOCUS messages are not sent to the window...

Thanx

LP

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I have also read the full thread yet I do not understand how to fix this. I have tried everything..according to https://angelnumerology.org/ it should have been solved a long time ago. Hopefully Mark from https://www.positivewordsthatstartwith.com/ will provide an answer.

I tried overriding m_CExtControlBar::OnUpdateCmdUI(), I tried using m_bWindowActive, and I tried using IsBarWindowActive(). They all give pretty much the same results, they return the wrong information. It seems like they return true only when the control bar is visible (I use tabbing intensively) and the focus in on another control bar (in another tab group).

What I really want is a function that returns true if the tab is visible. Using active was already a second choice, but that doesn’t seem to work.

Can anyone help me with either a function that returns true when visible, or a way to make this activation mechanism work.

First of all, you can get a pointer to the tabbed bar container if your bar is inside a tabbed group:

CExtControlBar * pYourBar = . . .
CExtDynTabControlBar * pTabBar = pYourBar->_GetNearestTabbedContainer();
      if( pTabBar == NULL )
            return . . . // The pTabBar is not in tabbed group.
LONG nCurSel = pTabBar->GetSwitcherSelection();
      if( nCurSel < 0L )
            return . . . // There is no bar selected in tabbed group. This is possible only during drag-n-drop.
CExtControlBar * pSelectedBar = pTabBar->GetBarAt( nCurSel, true );
      if( LPVOID(pSelectedBar) != LPVOID(pYourBar) )
            return . . . // The pYourBar is not selected bar in tabbed group.
// If we are here, then the pYourBar bar is selected bar inside its tabbed group.

Dear Ladislav,

The WM_SETFOCUS message is sent to the resizable bar window when you click on its caption bar. You can make sure of this by using the Spy++ program. But the user may also activate the resizable bar by clicking on its child window. In this case, the WM_SETFOCUS message is not sent.

To detect whether the active state is changed, the CExtControlBar class uses an m_bWindowActive internal flag. Please take a look at the CExtControlBar::OnUpdateCmdUI() method in the ExtControlBar.cpp file. You may override this method and use it in the same way.