Child view Toolbar and Statusbar disappeared after the application got ribbon toolbar incorporated

Question

Hello everyone,
I have a C++/MFC MDI application, which has been recently updated to incorporate the Ribbon toolbar/status bar. One of the application's child views has its own "old style" toolbar and status bar, and for the time being it was planned to
leave it like that. To my surprise upon opening that view I found that both toolbar and status bar are gone.
Could it be related to the app having the ribbon? If yes, how to re-enable those bars for a particular view? Despite the fact the way both bars are created is pretty regular I am adding the code excerpt below.
Thank you in advance,
Mike
//CMyMfcChildFrm.h
CToolBar m_wndToolBar;
CStatusBar m_wndStatusBar;
//CMyMfcChildFrm.cpp
int CMyMfcChildFrm::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
if (CMDIChildWndEx::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
return -1;
if (!m_wndToolBar.Create(this) || !m_wndToolBar.LoadToolBar( IDR_CBR )) {
TRACE0("Failed to create toolbar\n");
return -1;
m_wndToolBar.GetToolBarCtrl().SetExtendedStyle( TBSTYLE_EX_DRAWDDARROWS );
// update buttons styles
DWORD dwStyle = m_wndToolBar.GetButtonStyle( m_wndToolBar.CommandToIndex( ID_1 ) );
int idx = m_wndToolBar.CommandToIndex( ID_1 );
m_wndToolBar.SetButtonStyle( idx, dwStyle | TBSTYLE_DROPDOWN );
dwStyle = m_wndToolBar.GetButtonStyle( m_wndToolBar.CommandToIndex( ID_2 ) );
idx = m_wndToolBar.CommandToIndex( ID_2 );
m_wndToolBar.SetButtonStyle( idx, dwStyle | TBSTYLE_DROPDOWN );
dwStyle = m_wndToolBar.GetButtonStyle( m_wndToolBar.CommandToIndex( ID_3 ) );
idx = m_wndToolBar.CommandToIndex( ID_3 );
m_wndToolBar.SetButtonStyle( idx, dwStyle | TBSTYLE_DROPDOWN );
dwStyle = m_wndToolBar.GetButtonStyle( m_wndToolBar.CommandToIndex( ID_4 ) );
idx = m_wndToolBar.CommandToIndex( ID_4 );
m_wndToolBar.SetButtonStyle( idx, dwStyle | TBSTYLE_DROPDOWN );
// set status bar indicators which should be IDs of strings
UINT indicators[] =
ID_STATUS_1,
ID_STATUS_2,
ID_STATUS_3,
ID_STATUS_4,
ID_STATUS_5,
ID_STATUS_6
int nsf = sizeof( indicators ) / sizeof( UINT );
if( !m_wndStatusBar.Create( this ) || !m_wndStatusBar.SetIndicators( indicators, nsf ) ) {
TRACE0("Failed to create status bar\n");
return -1;
UINT nId;
UINT nStyle;
int cxWidth;
const int PANE_WIDTH = 75;
m_wndStatusBar.GetPaneInfo( 0, nId, nStyle, cxWidth );
m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneInfo( 0, nId, nStyle, PANE_WIDTH );
m_wndStatusBar.GetPaneInfo( 1, nId, nStyle, cxWidth );
m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneInfo( 1, nId, nStyle, PANE_WIDTH );
m_wndStatusBar.GetPaneInfo( 2, nId, nStyle, cxWidth );
m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneInfo( 2, nId, nStyle, PANE_WIDTH );
m_wndStatusBar.GetPaneInfo( 3, nId, nStyle, cxWidth );
m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneInfo( 3, nId, nStyle, PANE_WIDTH );
m_wndStatusBar.GetPaneInfo( 4, nId, nStyle, cxWidth );
m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneInfo( 4, nId, nStyle, 2 * PANE_WIDTH );
m_wndStatusBar.GetPaneInfo( 5, nId, nStyle, cxWidth );
m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneInfo( 5, nId, nStyle, PANE_WIDTH );
m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneText( 5, "0" );
return 0;
Mike Faynberg

Answer 1

Hi Shu Hu,
first of all thank you for your response.
Now regarding the project.
Yes, I have this application, which has been written in C++/MFC. It is like I mentioned, MDI app, which in particular employs several (7 or 8) child frame templates. One of these templates is supposed to have a toolbar and a status bar of its
own. It all worked fine for many years. This year the project underwent several major changes: 1. Ported to 64-bit platform; 2. Get compiled as a .NET project (with /clr qualifier), despite the fact it is a pretty formal change, and the code is still unmanaged;
and 3. The mainframe menu and toolbars were replaced with the Ribbon toolbar. With all that in place I would like to leave that child frame untouched (meaning with its own CToolBar and CStatusBar).
Unfortunately I did not have a chance (or actually time) to test the option that uses this child frame until yesterday, and oops... the contents is there but not a sign of toolbar and of the status bar.
I do not know which implementation details might be of interest for you - but the handling is pretty simple: creating a template in the application's InitInstance() using something like:
theDocTemplate1 = new CMultiDocTemplate( IDR_TYPE1,
RUNTIME_CLASS(CDoc1),
RUNTIME_CLASS(CFrame1),
RUNTIME_CLASS(CView1));
and then upon the option activation, the program (also in a pretty regular manner) starts the view by calling
GetTemplate1()->OpenDocumentFile( NULL );
I already submitted the OnCreate() function of the child frame class...
If you would like to know something else or more code details, please let me know.
Once again, thank you and best regards,
Mike
Mike Faynberg