HOWTO: How to Hide the Apply Button in CPropertySheet (141039)

SUMMARY

A modal CPropertySheet will automatically create an Apply button. To hide this button, you need to use different methods for different versions of MFC.

In Visual C++ 2.2 and earlier (MFC 3.2 and earlier), you can derive a class from CPropertySheet, override OnCreate(), call GetDlgItem(ID_APPLY_NOW), and finally call ShowWindow(SW_HIDE) to hide the Apply button.

In Visual C++ 4.0 (MFC 4.0), CPropertySheet has a public member called m_psh. m_psh is a PROPSHEETHEADER structure with a dwFlags member. One of the possible values of m_psh.dwFlags is PSH_NOAPPLYNOW. Setting this value before the call to DoModal() hides the Apply button. Another option in Visual C++ 4.0 is to call GetDlgItem()/ShowWindow(), but you should do it in OnInitDialog() instead of OnCreate().

MORE INFORMATION

In Visual C++ 2.2 and earlier, CPropertySheet was implemented internally by MFC. Starting with Visual C++ 4.0, the CPropertySheet uses the Windows 95 PropertySheet control, so the method for hiding the Apply button changed.

You can hide any of the default buttons in a modal property sheet by using the methods in this article. The IDs for each button are IDOK (OK button), IDCANCEL (Cancel button), ID_APPLY_NOW (Apply button), and IDHELP (Help button). Note that the Apply button is disabled by default until you call SetModified(). In addition, in Visual C++ 4.0, the Help button is not shown by default. To show it, you can set m_psh.dwFlags |= PSH_HASHELP.

Sample Code

/***** this code applies to Visual C++ 4.0 and later *****/ 
void CMyView::OnDisplayModalSheet()
{
   CMySheet sheet ("Set Properties");
   // this hides the Apply button
   sheet.m_psh.dwFlags |= PSH_NOAPPLYNOW;
   sheet.DoModal ();
}

/* You can also do the following to hide the Apply button */ 

BOOL CMySheet::OnInitDialog()
{
   CPropertySheet::OnInitDialog();

   // this hides the Apply button
   CWnd* pApplyButton = GetDlgItem (ID_APPLY_NOW);
   ASSERT (pApplyButton);
   pApplyButton->ShowWindow (SW_HIDE);

   return TRUE;
}
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/***** this code applies to Visual C++ 2.2 and earlier *****/ 
int CMySheet::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
   if (CPropertySheet::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
      return -1;

   // this hides the Apply button
   CWnd* pApplyButton = GetDlgItem (ID_APPLY_NOW);
   ASSERT (pApplyButton);
   pApplyButton->ShowWindow (SW_HIDE);

   return 0;
}
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