Label on bitmapButton

[Qasim]

Hi. Is it possible to have a label on bitmap button as well as bitmap. I am trying but only getting bitmap and no label. I am doing some thing like this...

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wxBitmap* bmpButton = new wxBitmapButton(myframe, -1, buttonBMP, wxPoint(-1,-1), wxSize(-1,-1), wxBU_RIGHT);
bmpButton->SetLabel("MyButton");

Any help will be appreciated.

[JimFairway]

Hi,

First, I think you have a typo in your example, it should be wxBitmapButton *bmpButton instead of wxBitMap.

If you want to overlay the label on the bitmap, you can use wxMemoryDC as follows:

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	wxMemoryDC memDC(buttonBMP);
	if (memDC.IsOk()) {
		memDC.DrawText(wxT("MyButton"),0,0);
	}

        wxBitmapButton* bmpButton = new wxBitmapButton(myframe, -1, buttonBMP, wxPoint(-1,-1), wxSize(-1,-1), wxBU_RIGHT);

Check
http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.6.3/wx_wxmemorydc.html and
http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.6/wx_wxdc.html
for more info.

Jim

[Qasim]

sorry that was tying mistake. I wanted to clear the point that if wxBitmapButton was derived from wxButton, then why we cant set label to button, as well as bitmap (reather than drawing to it)

[JimFairway]

Hi,

The way it's set up makes sense to me (I didn't write the code).

I think of it as they are both buttons with the same or similar behavior (enable, clicking, etc.) and one has a text label and the other has a bitmap on it.

The fact that one derives from the other is matter of convenience and maintainability for the developers.

Rather than a label on a bitmap, what about a bitmap button with a tool tip to provide the guidance text?

Jim

[Lloyd]

A bitmap button cant have a label. In that case you can prepare the bitmap with the particular label, and if you want to change the label during run time, change the bitmap.

[JimFairway]

Agreed, hence my first post.