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Hi Folks,

i am using one resizable dialog in the Reporgrid........
but i am not getting the scrollbar on the dialog box..........

so can anybody help me out.................

If your time is availabe, would you do me a favor? Thanks!

If your time is availabe, would you do me a favor? Thanks!

Sorry, I am just a fresh man. It seems to be very difficult for me though you explained very explictly in detail.
I have four dialogs and would you kindly update the http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/TestScrollDialog.zip in order to meet my requirement? I think it is easy for you.

Thanks a lot.

We think now we understand your question really clear. You should not create both of your dialogs as children of one scrollable container. You should create two scrollable containers. Each of them would contain its own dialog. You could use one additional container window which keeps both scrollable containers and only one scrollable window will be visible at a moment. We do not think this is difficult.

Would you kindly update the http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/TestScrollDialog.zip in order to meet my requirement?

What is the problem?

Perhaps I didn’t descript my question clearly.
I write an application based on the above example (http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/TestScrollDialog.zip), In this example, there is only one dialog, but in my application, there are two dialogs, I want to switch between them when I triggled it (select the menu or click one button in the toolbar etc.).
In the mainfrm.cpp, I create the two dialogs:

int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
......
if( ! m_wndScrollContainer.Create( NULL, NULL, WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE, rectDefault, this, AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST ) )
{
ASSERT( FALSE );
return -1;
}

if( ! m_dlgTest1.Create( CTestDialog1::IDD, &m_wndScrollContainer ) )
{
ASSERT( FALSE );
return -1;
}

if( ! m_dlgTest2.Create( CTestDialog2::IDD, &m_wndScrollContainer ) )
{
ASSERT( FALSE );
return -1;
}

m_wndScrollContainer.OnSwRecalcLayout( TRUE );
......
}

Unfortually, only m_dlgTest1 can be resizable, m_dlgTest2 can not be resizable.

Why?

Here is the application that has the following layout:

CMainFrame -----contains-----> CExtScrollContainerWnd -----contains-----> a resizable dialog window

But in fact the CExtScrollContainerWnd window is the parent for three windows: a resizable dialog and two CExtScrollBar windows. You can find the same layout in several copies in your application. Here is how you can get pointers to the scroll bars:

CYourDialog * pDlg = . . .
CExtScrollContainerWnd * pScrollContainerWnd = (CExtScrollContainerWnd)pDlg->GetParent();
CExtScrollBar * pScrollBarH = (CExtScrollBar*)pScrollContainerWnd->GetScrollBarCtrl( SB_HORZ );
CExtScrollBar * pScrollBarV = (CExtScrollBar*)pScrollContainerWnd->GetScrollBarCtrl( SB_VERT );

I create multiple dialogs based on the above sample, when I switch the dialogs, why only the first dialog can be resizable?
e.g.:

int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
    ......
    if( ! m_wndScrollContainer.Create( NULL, NULL, WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE, rectDefault, this, AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST ) )
    {
        ASSERT( FALSE );
        return -1;
    }

    if( ! m_dlgTest1.Create( CTestDialog1::IDD, &m_wndScrollContainer ) )
    {
        ASSERT( FALSE );
        return -1;
    }

    if( ! m_dlgTest2.Create( CTestDialog2::IDD, &m_wndScrollContainer ) )
    {
        ASSERT( FALSE );
        return -1;
    }

    m_wndScrollContainer.OnSwRecalcLayout( TRUE );
    ......
}

The CExtResizableDialog class is based on MFC’s CDialog rather than on MFC’s CFormView. That is why it does not support scrolling. If you need a scrollable dialog, you should use a scrollable container window which contains a dialog inside like in this sample.