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Hi guy,
My tool bar work fine with limited buttons on it like,
i have 20 buttons on of 30x30 size then ok, my tool bar works fine,
Problem arised when my number of buttons on tool bar increase,
like,
If my toolbar have 90 buttons on it then more than 20 buttons cross the mainframe window.
so user cannot access those button that place outside the main frame.

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so provide me any link,succestion or block of code that allows me to solve this problem.

Thanks and regard.
santosh dhanawade.

Posted 16-Dec-12 23:50pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2012-12-17T00:16:00

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This is not a good design, 90 buttons in a single toolbar is just going to confuse people. You should either use multiple toolbars, or the new Ribbon style bars as used in the newer Microsoft Office products. Take a look at these links[^] for help on using the Ribbon.

Posted 17-Dec-12 0:16am

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Maximilien 17-Dec-12 6:44am

The current framework (MFC?) does restrict the number of buttons on the toolbar; The user can (if enabled) even customize his toolbars to add more buttons.

Richard MacCutchan 17-Dec-12 6:46am

I'm not sure why you are telling me this.

Coder Block 18-Dec-12 6:43am

90 button needed ..
I gives a option of customize tool bar ..
but user cross the frame wnd by showing lots of buttons then??

Richard MacCutchan 18-Dec-12 8:12am

Then you have to do the same thing that Windows office does, and have a drop down button at the end of the bar that holds all the buttons that cannot be displayed. Or, you can use the Ribbon toolbar, as I suggested above. Or, you can look at your design and figure out why you need all these buttons.

Coder Block 19-Dec-12 1:09am

hmm but i am using studio 2003 server edition ..
i dont get control like ribbon in it??
or may be i am wrong.

Richard MacCutchan 19-Dec-12 4:18am

OK, so you cannot use the Ribbon option, that leaves you to investigate the other method.

Coder Block 20-Dec-12 6:32am

do you have any alternative?

Richard MacCutchan 20-Dec-12 6:36am

I have explained what the alternatives are, now it is up to you to investigate them and decide which you can use. If you believe there may be others then I would suggest some Google searching.

Maximilien · Answer 2 · 2012-12-17T00:45:00

Solution 2

I'm not in front of a Windows OS right now, but I think the MFC framework adds a little "drop-down" button at the right of the toolbar that will open a menu of some kind displaying the buttons that cannot be displayed.

Have a look at the CMFCToolbar documentation.

Posted 17-Dec-12 0:45am

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Coder Block 18-Dec-12 6:42am

how to do that??