Re: Vista, MFC and Maximizing Child Windows

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:16:17 -0700
Message-ID:
<A56EF17F-2511-4FEA-A297-0828230D12E3@microsoft.com>
Of course switching to Windows Classic theme yields windows that are even
uglier than XP :o) so I'm not likely to leave that set.

Tom

"SimplySue" <SimplySue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1511D068-09A5-4053-BA74-EDD0A6819831@microsoft.com...

It's only the child window which is off by about 1/8in. The outer frame
fills the screen normally. I would be extremely grateful if you could try
using the wizard in Visual Studio 2005, VC++, to create a multi doc
project
using MFC, then test this on your Vista system. It would then determine
for
sure whether it is just a driver problem on my Vista machine or not.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" wrote:

Are you sure this isn't just your display? I just tried one of my MDI
apps in VS2005 and
it fills the screen edge to edge.

Note that it is unlikely that this has anything at all to do with MFC,
since window
maximizing is a function of the kernel, not MFC. Therefore, "fixing" it
in MFC would not
even be a concept that could apply.

Do you have other MDI apps that exhibit correct behavior?

On the other hand, that error you describe is a common error with
displays. I have a KVM
switch that lets me switch from one machine to another,and every once in
a while when I
switch the display does not resynchronize properly and I get all my
windows offset to the
left by about 1/8". I thne have to hit one of the buttons on the display
to force it to
resynchronize. Sometimes it is off by 3", although that particular one
doesn't happen
very often.
joe

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:58:01 -0700, SimplySue
<SimplySue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I have created from scratch a multi-document project simply using the
wizard,
VC++ and MFC in Visual Studio 2005. (I have done nothing else to this
test
program.) When running the resultant exe on a Windows Vista machine I
find
that when the program is running at full screen, and I maximise any
child
window (CMDIChildWnd), the child window leaves a border of approximately
1/8in at the right hand side of the screen (as if it is still expecting
the
CMDIFrameWnd to have a thick border).

Can anybody else reproduce this problem? Is this something which will
be
fixed in future releases of the MFC?

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newcomer@flounder.com
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm

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