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Posted
by Robert Kelly IV
on August 25th, 1998
In my latest project, File Axe, I decided I wanted something very like the little arrow buttons that one can find in DevStudio's Tools|Customize... property sheet, Tools tab. The little button on the right of the edit control for "Arguments:" to be precise. So, after a quick browse on codeguru reveled nothing, I decide it would not be hard to make, and I could wrap Randy More's cool way of using the TrackPopupMenu in immediate mode. I have a feeling I will be using it more you see. (:
Uses code from...
The niffy way of using the menu in immediate mode is (directly) from Using CMenu::TrackPopupMenu as an Immediate Function - Randy More, General owner draw format from Flat owner drawn buttons - Girish Bharadwaj, and the idea for drawing the arrow from PushButton with bitmap & text - Michael Santoro
UNICODE?
I have no way to test if this will work with UNICODE, however it SHOULD. (:This was compiled with VC5 and MFC4.2. Tested on Win95 OSR2 (no IE4 integration). This code should compile cleanly under warning level 4.
To Use:
Simply include "MenuButton.h" and "MenuButton.cpp" in your project, and include "MenuButton.h" in whatever file you wish to use it in ("stdafx.h" mayhaps).Then in the dialog editor, make a normal button, a suggested size is 12x14. The little arrow gfx will be centered in the button in any case. Make a handler for a button click, and copy the sample usage code to there, then of course modify to suit your needs.
A way to use CMenuButton... (aka the sample usage code)
// -[Feral]--------------------------------------------------------------- // pop up a menu, and add pre defined text to the edit ctrl. void CPP_Split::OnBUTTONNameFormatOptions() { // -[Feral]----------------------------------------------------------- // Vars and Assignment CEdit *pEdit = (CEdit*)GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT_NameFormat); // -[Feral]----------------------------------------------------------- // popup a menu and let the user make a selection... DWORD dwSelectionMade = m_menubuttonNameFormatOptions.DoSingleClick(IDM_NameFormatOptions); // -[Feral]----------------------------------------------------------- // Do something with the selection // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // The value of dwSelectionMade is the id of the command selected or 0 if no selection was made switch(dwSelectionMade) { default: // Do nothing (No selection) break; case `Menu Resource ID`: pEdit->ReplaceSel(_T("`Text to add at cursor, or replace selection with`") ); break; // Example case... //Tip: Open the resource file (<apname>.rc) and copy your menu from there... much easier. case ID_PREDEFINEDPOPUP_SAMPLE1FILENAME1XEXTSPLITPIECE: // "Sample #&1: Filename.1_X.Ext.SplitPiece", pEdit->ReplaceSel(_T("<File>.<1_X>.<Ext>.SplitPiece") ); break; } // -[Feral]----------------------------------------------------------- // Clean Up and Return }
Questions, comments, bug fixes (gasp! (: ) and whatever else comes to mind are always welcome!
Happy Coding!
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