Adding a Button to CPropertySheet

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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.

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Date Last Updated: March 5, 1999