In my app I use a CPropertySheet and CPropertyPages to display properties for
individual days. If the user wanted all the weeks days to be Setup with the same
properties, I wanted a way to copy an individual day’s properties to all the other days of
the week. The solution I came up with was to create a "Copy" button in the
CPropertySheet rather than in each CPropertyPage as show in the picture below…
- First sub-class CPropertySheet with a class of your own using ClassWizard, say
CMyPropertySheet. - Next in your MyPropertySheet.h add a member function CButton
m_ButtonCopy. Also in your resource.h add a
#define IDC_BUTTON_COPY 0x02000. where 0x02000 is
a resource ID that has not been used yet. - Then over-ride the CPropertySheet::OnInitDialog function and insert the following
code…
CRect rect, tabrect;
int width;
//Get button sizes and positions
GetDlgItem(IDOK)->GetWindowRect(rect);
GetTabControl()->GetWindowRect(tabrect);
ScreenToClient(rect); ScreenToClient(tabrect);
//New button -> width, height and Y-coordiate of IDOK
// -> X-coordinate of tab control
width = rect.Width();
rect.left = tabrect.left; rect.right = tabrect.left + width;
//Create new "Add" button and set standard font
m_ButtonCopy.Create("Copy",
BS_PUSHBUTTON|WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_TABSTOP, rect, this, IDC_BUTTON_COPY);
m_ButtonCopy.SetFont(GetFont());
If your were to compile at this point you would now see the new Copy
button in the CPropertySheet; however the button would not do anything. To handle a single
button click added the following line to your message map declaration…
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyPropertySheet, CPropertySheet)
//{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CMyPropertySheet)
// NOTE – the ClassWizard will add and remove mapping macros here.
//}}AFX_MSG_MAP
ON_BN_CLICKED(IDC_BUTTON_COPY, OnButtonCopy)
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
Lastly add a helper function called OnButtonCopy() and insert your
code for when the button is clicked.
Date Last Updated: March 5, 1999