CBCGPButton

Detailed Description

The CBCGPButton class provides the extended functionality of the standard Windows button controls. It includes the new look & feel styles, the various ways to align text, ability to combine an image and text, set cursor and tool tip.

In addition, the CBCGPURLLinkButton derived from the CBCGPButton supports creation of Internet-style links, as well as CBCGPColorButton specially aimed to create Office-style color-filled button controls and color pickers.

The new look & feel styles are 3D, flat, semi-flat and no border styles. The text may be aligned at the left, top and center positions and when combined with image you can control at the run-time its appearance as text and image, text only and image only. You can assign a specific mouse cursor to be displayed when it is moved over the button.

You can create a button control either from a dialog template as a regular button or directly in your code. In both cases, first call the constructor CBCGPButton to construct the CBCGPButton object; then call the Create() member function to create the Windows control and attach it to the CBCGPButton object. When you're using the ClassWizard to associate this control with a CDialog - derived class member you need to replace the CButton type to the CBCGPButton type.

If you want to handle Windows notification messages, such as BN_CLICKED, sent by a button control to its parent (usually a class derived from CDialog), add to the CDialog - derived object a message-map entry and message-handler member function for each message. The notifications sent by a CBCGPButton object are the same as those sent by a CButton object.

See also

CBCGPURLLinkButton, CBCGPColorButton, CBCGPMenuButton

Inheritance diagram for CBCGPButton:

Public Types
enum	AlignStyle
enum	FlatStyle

Public Member Functions
	CleanUp	Frees the allocated resources
	ClearNumericNotificationBadge	Clears the numeric notification badge.
	EnableFullTextTooltip	Allows to show tooltip even if there is enough space for the text on the button
	EnableMenuFont	Enables or disables using of the menu font when displaying the button's text
	GetDescription	Gets a description.
	GetNumericNotificationBadge	Gets a notification badge numeric value.
	GetNumericNotificationBadgeColor	Gets a notification badge background color.
	GetTooltip	Obtain the button's tooltip.
	GetToolTipCtrl	Gets a reference to the embedded tooltip control
	GetTooltipDescription	Obtain the button's description.
	IsAutoCheck	Tells whether a buttons is an auto-check or auto-radio button.
	IsAutoInverseIconsInDarkTheme	Tells whether the button's icon should be automatically inversed in the dark themes.
	IsAutorepeatCommandMode	Determines whether a button is working in autorepeat mode.
	IsCheckBox	Tells whether a button is a check-box button.
	IsHighlighted	Determines whether the button is highlighted
	IsPressed	Determines whether the button is pressed
	IsPushed	Determines whether the button is pushed
	IsRadioButton	Tells whether a button is a radio button.
	SetAutoInverseIconsInDarkTheme	Specifies whether the button's icon should be automatically inversed in the dark themes.
	SetAutorepeatMode	Puts a button in the autorepeat mode.
	SetCheckedImage	Specifies an image to be displayed on the checked button
	SetCheckedImage	Specifies an image to be displayed on the checked button
	SetCheckedImage	Specifies an image to be displayed on the checked button
	SetDescription	Specified a new description.
	SetFaceColor	Sets a new background color
	SetImage	Specifies an image to be displayed on the button
	SetImage	Specifies an image to be displayed on the button
	SetImage	Specifies an image to be displayed on the button
	SetMouseCursor	Specifies a new cursor hand image to be displayed on the button
	SetMouseCursorHand	Specifies a new cursor hand image to be displayed on the button
	SetNumericNotificationBadge	Sets a numeric notification badge.
	SetStdImage	Set the button's image to be a standard image taken from CBCGPMenuImages
	SetTextColor	Specifies a new text color for non-selected button's state
	SetTextHotColor	Specifies a new text color for selected button state
	SetTooltip	Specifies a new tooltip
	SizeToContent	Changes the size of the button's control according to its text and image size.

Static Public Member Functions
	EnableWinXPTheme	Allows to draw button borders using the current Windows theme.

Public Attributes
	m_bDrawFocus	If nonzero, a focus rectangle is drawn around the button's text and image when the button receives focus
	m_bHighlightChecked	Specifies whether to highlight buttons with the style BS_CHECKBOX or not when the mouse is hovered over.
	m_bOnGlass	Specifies whether a control is located on the "glass" (DWM) area of the parent window.
	m_bRighImage	If nonzero, the button's image is shown from the right side
	m_bTopImage	If nonzero, the button's image is shown on top
	m_bTransparent	If non-zero, the button is transparent.
	m_bVisualManagerStyle	Specifies whether a control has a Visual Manager style look.
	m_nAlignStyle	Specifies alignment of the button's text label.
	m_nFlatStyle	Specifies the button's flat style.

Static Public Attributes
	m_bDontSetCapture	If this global flag is TRUE, SetCapture/ReleaseCapture methods are never called for all CBCGPButton controls.

Protected Member Functions
	OnDraw	Called by the framework when the button should be redrawn
	OnDrawBorder	Called by the framework when the button's border should be redrawn
	OnDrawFocusRect	Called when a button has focus to redraw the focus rectangle
	OnDrawImage	Called when a button's image should be redrawn.
	OnDrawNotificationBadge	Called when a button's notification badge should be redrawn.
	OnDrawText	Called when a button's text should be redrawn
	OnFillBackground	Called by the framework when the button's background should be filled
	SelectFont	Called when a new font is about to be selected