MFC. New Custom Control

CommandBars provides a lot of standard controls for CommandBars - buttons, popups, edit, combobox, scrollbar, slider, but we always can create own controls derived from one of them.

This article describes how to create control derived from button and add some functionality for it.

Let’s create CommandBars button that show active palette color.

1. Create new project using ToolkitPro Appwizard with MenuBar and Toolbars.

2. Create new class derived from CXTPControlButton (or CXTPControlPopup for popup button)

class CColorButton : public CXTPControlButton

{

public:

      CColorButton(void);

      ~CColorButton(void);

};

We need allow our button to save/restore self so need to add

DECLARE_XTP_CONTROL(CColorButton),

IMPLEMENT_XTP_CONTROL(CColorButton, CXTPControlButton) macros

3. Add COLORREF m_clr variable that will be used to draw button content and add Get and Set methods

      void SetColor(COLORREF clr) {

            if (clr != m_clr) {

                  m_clr = clr;

                  RedrawParent();

            }

      }

      COLORREF GetColor() const {

            return m_clr;

      }

4. Override Draw Method and fill rectangle with m_clr color

      virtual void Draw(CDC* pDC) {

            GetPaintManager()->DrawRectangle(pDC, GetRect(), GetSelected(), GetPressed(),

                  GetEnabled(), GetChecked(), GetPopuped(), m_pParent->GetType(), m_pParent->GetPosition());

            CRect rcFill(GetRect());

            rcFill.DeflateRect(3, 3);

            pDC->FillSolidRect(rcFill, m_clr);

pDC->Draw3dRect(rcFill, 0, 0);

      }

5. Now Connect our new button class with button of toolbar

ON_XTP_CREATECONTROL()

…

int CMainFrame::OnCreateControl(LPCREATECONTROLSTRUCT lpCreateControl)

{

      if (lpCreateControl->nID == ID_VIEW_COLOR)

      {

            lpCreateControl->pControl = new CColorButton();

return TRUE;

      }

      return FALSE;

}

6. Add Update and Execute handlers in our View and we’re done.

Sample Project:

ColorPopupSample.zip