Programming the status bar of MFC (taking displaying the current time of the system as an example)

First, add the following pane to the string table on the resourse tab, for example, ids_timer clock.

Second, add the identifier to the mainframe app file.
For example:
Static uint indicators [] =
{
Id_separator, // status line indicator
// Id_indicator_caps,
// Id_indicator_num,
// Id_indicator_scrl,
Ids_timer,
};

Again: add the following to the mainframe: oncreate () function:Code:
Ctime T = ctime: getcurrenttime ();
Cstring STR = T. Format ("% H: % m: % s ");
Cclientdc DC (this );
Csize SZ = Dc. gettextextent (STR );

Int Index = 0;
Index = m_wndstatusbar.commandtoindex (ids_timer );
M_wndstatusbar.setpaneinfo (index, ids_timer, sbps_normal, Sz. CX );
M_wndstatusbar.setpanetext (index, STR );

Add the following code to the ontimer () function:

Status Bar programming
ctime T = ctime: getcurrenttime ();
cstring STR = T. format ("% H: % m: % s");
cclientdc (this);
csize SZ = dc. gettextextent (STR);
m_wndstatusbar.setpaneinfo (1, ids_timer, sbps_normal, Sz. CX);
m_wndstatusbar.setpanetext (1, STR);