How to disable a toolbar dropdown button but not the arrow

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Hi,

in my MFC application I do have a toolbar with some dropdown buttons. These buttons are created with

C++

SetExtendedStyle(TBSTYLE_EX_DRAWDDARROWS)

So they have 2 parts the user can press:
1. Main button part
2. Arrow button part

In different situations I want to disable some of these buttons completely or just partly (some menu items of the dropdown menu).
There is now only one problem I can't find a proper solution for:
When I want to disable the main part of the dropdown button and leave the arrow part enabled to access the dropdown menu and its related actions.

Is this possible w/o writing my own dropdown button class (derived by the mfc dropdown button)?
If yes, how?

Posted 24-Feb-14 3:07am

DFaeuster

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karthik Udhayakumar · Answer 1 · 2014-02-24T07:26:00

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Hope this helps,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1ke6s1fc.aspx[^]

All the Best:)

Posted 24-Feb-14 7:26am

karthik Udhayakumar

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DFaeuster 25-Feb-14 1:34am

Nope, unfortunately not. The article you posted is about creating such a dropdown button, but this is not my problem. I try to disable only the main part of the button but NOT the arrow.