Re: CButton 'down' state
Isa wrote:
Hi,
I have created two CButtons (using base class) in a CWnd subclass. I would
like the buttons to behave much like those on the scroll bar (i.e. when the
mouse hovers over the button and the left mouse button is down, it'll
continue as if it was clicked), but I couldn't find a way to get the mouse
messages sent to the parent window...
I tried mouse tracking the mouse hovering (with the button's m_hWnd in the
TRACKMOUSEEVENT struct) without success... The message isn't even sent to the
parent... The WM_COMMAND button for pushbuttons are only sent when they're
clicked, so that didn't help... I'm sure this is something very easy to do
but I just can't seem to figure it out :-( The last thing i want to do is to
create another CButton extended class...
Please help!
Thanks in advance,
Isa
Why do you think extending CButton is bad? That's how things are done.
The operating system sends the button's mouse messages to the button,
and it will also send WM_MOUSELEAVE to the button (and only to the
button). So to handle the messages you have to derive from CButton and
add message handlers in that class.
The usual way to do what you want is to add SetTimer and a WM_TIMER
message handler in your button class, then use the timer to periodically
sent extra WM_COMMAND messages to the button parent.
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