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Asked: 2026-05-23T03:28:17+00:00

I’ve been trying to create a custom toolbar in a MFC project in Visual

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I’ve been trying to create a custom toolbar in a MFC project in Visual Studio 2010. I’ve been following the Sketcher tutorial in Ivan Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ 2010. The problem I’m running into is that the toolbar doesn’t update to reflect the order and spacing of icons I have created.

I’ve created a small screenshot to demonstrate the problem:
MFC toolbar editor example

In the background is the visual studio toolbar editor with my desired toolbar configuration. In the foreground is the actual app, which does not reflect the spacing or order of icons I’ve designed. It does reflect NEW icons being added, and the icons work fine, but I just can’t seem to get them to re-order or appropriately space themselves. They just append to the end in whatever order I create them.

I’ve tried the rudimentary techniques of restarting both VS and windows, but to no avail.

Any tips on getting it to play nicely? Lacking that, is there somewhere to manually view or edit the code generated by the toolbar editor?

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  1. Editorial Team

    For starters, if you create an MFC SDI/MDI project in VS.NET 2005, there is no such issue. It happens in VS.NET 2008 and 2010.

    In fact, your rearrangement of the standard toolbar does takes effect. It’s just not showing you the default state. To restore the state: click the small arrow button at the end of toolbar -> Add or Remove Buttons -> Standard -> Reset Toolbar.

    Though I’m not 100% sure why it happens like this(design like this or a bug), there is a way to work around it and it works:

    Add following code to the end of CMainFrame::LoadFrame(...)

    BOOL CMainFrame::LoadFrame(UINT nIDResource, DWORD dwDefaultStyle, CWnd* pParentWnd, CCreateContext* pContext) 
{
...

// Explicitly restore toolbar state
m_wndToolBar.RestoreOriginalstate();

return TRUE;
}

    I recommend you to contact Microsoft support engineers as there’s little resource on the web.

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