CHoverButton - A Simple hoverbutton with One Bitmap and a tooltip

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Introduction

Looking around for some nice bitmap hover buttons, I just couldn't find what I was looking for. In this case, there are a couple of things you can do:

1. Leave it.
2. Buy it.
3. Steal it.
4. Get it for free.
5. Start crying.
6. Do it yourself (and possibly share it).

I'll share!

I found another hoverbutton class that uses SetCapture() and ReleaseCapture(). Using this method gave me some problems. I can't remember why, but it did to me. So I thought why do it so difficult? MS has a nice API to handle hover states: _TrackMouseEvent().

So here it is... the class. After a long thought, I decided to call it: CHoverButton. I used some classes and information found elsewhere (thanks to the people for that).

How to Use It?

1. In your resource editor, create a button and set the 'owner draw' property.
2. Use classwizard to create a CButton object in your dialog.
3. Include the "hoverbutton.h" file in your dialog class file.
4. Rename the CButton object type to CHoverButton.
5. Create a bitmap with three buttonstates: Up/Down/Hover. The pictures need to be right next to each other.
   The button will calculate its own size = (the width of the bitmap)/3.
   You can use true color bitmaps here. See below for an example image.

   

6. In the OnInitDialog(), load the bitmap with mybutton.LoadBitmap(IDC_MYBUTTON);
7. Set a tooltip with mybutton.SetToolTipText();
8. Compile and enjoy.

Have fun!

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