Give Effect on round button in mfc

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

I just created a round button by making it the button as owner draw and need to give effect on that button , now it appears not like a button button but like a simple round figure

Posted 1-May-11 22:44pm

sandeepnayathil

Add a Solution

3 solutions

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-05-01T22:57:00

Solution 1

You need to call Windows API SetWindowRgn. Not only it will create rounded visible region, but all functionality of the Windowed control will be limited to the region, importantly — the mouse events. Naturally, the region can be of any shape, not just rounded but defined by a combination of theory-set operations on the primitive point sets such as ellipse, rectangle, etc.

See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd145102(v=vs.85).aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 1-May-11 22:57pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Comments

Joan M 2-May-11 5:04am

As always it is 100% correct, my 5.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-May-11 5:49am

Thank you, Joan.
--SA

CPallini 2-May-11 6:02am

Very good. 5+!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-May-11 6:35am

Thank you very much.
--SA

Joan M · Answer 2 · 2011-05-01T23:03:00

Solution 2

What SAKryukov says is 100%, just in order to extend it a little, you can take a look at all the articles here[^] in CP in which some users have posted different ways to do specially shaped buttons...

PS: remember to filter by MFC ;)

HTH! :thumbsup:

Posted 1-May-11 23:03pm

Joan M

Updated 1-May-11 23:05pm

v2

Comments

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-May-11 5:52am

Joan, I hope many references are useful (I used to find some good ones there), so my 5.

I only want to warn OP that those methods not using SetWindowRgn are not correct, as they would create some false positive events such as Button click event (it the user clicks at the corner, in case of rounding).

So, be careful.
--SA

Joan M 2-May-11 6:46am

Again, you are right, I've posted those links in order to help him in solving the GUI problem and to get some pointers and easiness in having the job done, but of course if he is rounding buttons, your answer must be taken into account... ;)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-May-11 7:17am

Agreed...
--SA

CPallini · Answer 3 · 2011-05-01T23:11:00

Solution 3

There are a lot of articles[^], here at CodeProject, about round buttons.

Posted 1-May-11 23:11pm

CPallini

Comments

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-May-11 5:53am

Same to you. My 5, but OP should be careful by the reasons I explained in my comment to the answer by Joan.
--SA