Re: I need a custom CButton
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:47:20 -0000, "David Webber"
<dave@musical.demon.co.uk> wrote:
It would be nice if the system supplied a button which could display an
image with text beside it, all from the .rc file. So that the text could
define the keyboard interface and be translatable into different languages
while the image remained the same.
I had been thinking vaguely along the lines of a class for this, derived
from CButton and using the owner draw style, but where the bitmap was
assumed to have the same resource ID as the button. If such a bitmap is
found the button would display it, if not then just the text. Is there
any obvious reason why this might be a bad idea?
Button IDs aren't unique but instead make sense only in the context of the
dialog box that contains them. You'd have to create and adhere to some sort
of numbering convention to avoid conflicts. Unfortunately, resource IDs are
only 16 bits, so you can't do what the help system does and make a 32 bit
word out of dialog/control ID pairs.
Having got that far, there is then the idea of owner-drawing a menu system,
based on the usual menu resource, but displaying an image with each menu
item when it is found with the same reource ID as the command ID - thus
turning one's old-fashioned MFC menus into something a bit more like Visual
Studio or Word, by deriving from CMenu, without touching the menu stuff in
the rc file. Again is there any obvious reason why this might be a bad
idea?
Command IDs are unique, and MFC does that already for tooltip and status
bar strings.
--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
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