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Moving the Standard Buttons

Posted by Zafir Anjum on August 6th, 1998
We've already discussed moving of the standard buttons in the topic about resizing the property sheet. The standard buttons can be treated like any other window once you gets its window handle or a CWnd object to manipulate it. The code below shows how to move the standard buttons to the right and resize the property sheet appropriately. 
	CRect rectWnd, rectBtn;
	GetDlgItem(IDOK)->GetWindowRect(rectBtn);
	GetWindowRect(rectWnd);
	int btnwidth = rectBtn. rectBtn.Width();
	int btnheight = rectBtn.Height();
	int offset = rectWnd.bottom - rectBtn.bottom;
	int btnleft = rectWnd.right-rectWnd.left;
	rectWnd.bottom = rectBtn.top;
	rectWnd.right += btnwidth + offset;
	MoveWindow(rectWnd);
	
	int ids[] = { IDOK, IDCANCEL, ID_APPLY_NOW };
	rectBtn.left = btnleft;
	rectBtn.right = btnleft + btnwidth;
	for( int i =0; i < sizeof(ids)/sizeof(ids[0]); i++)
	{
		rectBtn.top = offset + i * (offset+btnheight);
		rectBtn.bottom = rectBtn.top + btnheight;
		GetDlgItem(ids[i])->MoveWindow(rectBtn);
	}

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  • Another way of moving the buttons

    Posted by Legacy on 12/24/2001 12:00am

    Originally posted by: Weiye 

    Just thought of another way which is much more simpler in terms of the lines of code : 


    BOOL CMyPropertySheet::OnInitDialog() 

    {

    	// Call base class initialisation

    	BOOL bResult = CPropertySheet::OnInitDialog();


    	// WINDOWPLACEMENT structure

    	WINDOWPLACEMENT wpWindowPlacement;


    	// Get window placement of help button

    	GetDlgItem(IDHELP)->GetWindowPlacement(&wpWindowPlacement);


    	// Change button position

    	wpWindowPlacement.rcNormalPosition.left -= 15;

    	wpWindowPlacement.rcNormalPosition.right -= 15;

    	

    	// Set new button position

    	GetDlgItem(IDHELP)->SetWindowPlacement(&wpWindowPlacement);


    	return bResult;

    }

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  • Hiding and moving the standard propertysheet buttons

    Posted by Legacy on 10/09/1998 12:00am

    Originally posted by: Colin Johnson 

    Zafir,


    I tried your code snippet for moving "OK" and "Cancel" after hiding

    "Apply" and "Help".


    It gave a weired result (OK and Apply were moved to top RHS of propertysheet).


    Here is an alternative technique that hides the "Apply" and "Help" buttons and moves
"Cancel" and "OK" into their positions.


    

    BOOL CMyPropertySheet::OnInitDialog() 

    {

    	BOOL bResult = CPropertySheet::OnInitDialog();

    	// Hide "Help" button

    	CWnd* pWnd = GetDlgItem(IDHELP);

    	ASSERT_VALID(pWnd);

    	if (pWnd)

    	{

    		pWnd->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);

    	}

    	// ...but remember its position

    	CRect rectHelp;

    	pWnd->GetWindowRect(&rectHelp);

    	ScreenToClient(&rectHelp);

    	pWnd = GetDlgItem(IDCANCEL);

    	ASSERT_VALID(pWnd);

    	// Move "Cancel" button to "Help" button's position

    	if (pWnd)

    	{

    		pWnd->MoveWindow(&rectHelp);

    	}

    	// Hide "Apply" button

    	pWnd = GetDlgItem(ID_APPLY_NOW);

    	ASSERT_VALID(pWnd);

    	if (pWnd)

    	{

    		pWnd->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);

    	}

    	// ...but remember its position

    	CRect rectApply;

    	pWnd->GetWindowRect(&rectApply);

    	ScreenToClient(&rectApply);

    	pWnd = GetDlgItem(IDOK);

    	ASSERT_VALID(pWnd);

    	// Move "OK" button to "Apply" button's position

    	if (pWnd)

    	{

    		pWnd->MoveWindow(&rectApply);

    	}


    	return bResult;

    }

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