Adding Bitmaps to Buttons?

[TimeOut]

I've tried following the help in Visual C++, but it's quite difficult to understand for a beginner (well at least for me, anyway).

Wondering if anyone could give me a 'dumbed down' explanation? Would be really grateful for any help, as always.

Thanks.

 

[TGM]

Hi

I'll suppose from here that we will be working on the Ok button (Id= IDOK) of a dialogbox CTestDlg class. This is the same for all the others

to add a bitmap to a button, follow the following procedure:

- add three bitmaps in the resource of your app and called them OKU ( for Up), OKD ( for Down) and OKF ( for focus)
You draw them yourself or you try to steal from an other application ....)

- add these lines in the include file of CTestDlg class:

protected:
CBitmapButton m_OkButton;

- add these in the constructor of the CTestDlg class:

// Load Bitmaps to Display Owner-Drawn Buttons

if ( !m_OkButton.LoadBitmaps( MAKEINTRESOURCE( OKU),
MAKEINTRESOURCE( OKD), MAKEINTRESOURCE( OKF)))
{
AfxMessageBox( "Unable to get Bitmpas"

AfxThrowResourceException();
}

- add these in the OnInitDialog function of the CTestDlg class:

// Set Up Bitmap Buttons

VERIFY( m_OkButton.SubclassDlgItem( IDOK, this));
m_OkButton.SizeToContent();

That's it !!

HTH
Thierry
EMail: Thierry.Marneffe@swing.be