Drawing on a static control.

[llp00na]

Hi, How do I use a static control to draw on a dialog ? So far, I have created a static text control and added a member control variable to it of type CStatic. Now, I am required to subclass the text control so that i can override its OnPaint() function but i do not know how to achieve that. Any help will be highly appreciated. llp00na

[Cedric Moonen]

Maybe this article[^] will help. It is about subclassing a CButton but the procedure is the same (AFAIK) for a static control.

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Cédric Moonen Software developer
Charting control

[sujtha]

Hi, Declare the member variable for that static control. ex: if the subclass for static is cmystatic initialize the variable in dlg cDlg.h #include "mystatic.h" CMystatic stat; //Cdlg.cpp void CDlg::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX) { CDialog::DoDataExchange(pDX); //{{AFX_DATA_MAP(CFirstDlg) DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_STATIC_FIRST, m_fir); //}}AFX_DATA_MAP }

[David Crow]

llp00na wrote:

Now, I am required to subclass the text control so that i can override its OnPaint() function but i do not know how to achieve that.

Use ClassWizard (Ctrl+W) to derive a new class from CStatic. Then you can override its OnPaint() method.

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[llp00na]

thank you. I am done now :) llp00na

[llp00na]

thanx for the gr8 article llp00na

[llp00na]

thanx, i am done now. I used the class wizard as david suggested llp00na