I'm currently learning MFC using Visual C++.
I have a progress control and I was wanting to add text to it to show the current status in percent. Much to my surprise, this was not a standard option!

I can position a static text control over the progress control and update it without any issues, and this would be fine, except that the text does not invert.
On all the progress bars i've seen (setup wizards and the like), when the progress text is not covered by the bar it is black (or whatever colour the bar is), and when it is covered by the bar it is white. Obviously this improves readability greatly.

Does anyone know how I can go about doing this?

Yeah, VC 6 is starting to be a drag at UI programming :-( . The only "solution" I am aware of is to do just that!
You'll have to compute yourself the position of your text reported to the static control, and it's respective position reported to the filling in the progress bar. So, when the filling reaches the position of your text, you'll have to do the inverting yourself .
If there is a better way out there, please let me know!

Regards,
Luci

Nope, there's no better way it seems.
I just had to learn device contexts in a hurry.
Oh well, it works - now I just have to subclass it properly from the CProgressCtrl class.

Hi
can u pls tell me how u created the progressbar with text inside even i am facing the same problem.