CPushPinButton v1.29 An MFC PushPin button class

This is a freeware MFC PushPin button class. The class is derived from CButton and when used appears as follows:

The enclosed zip file contains the source and resources and a text file describing how to use the class.

Copyright

• You are allowed to include the source code in any product (commercial, shareware, freeware or otherwise) when your product is released in binary form.
• You are allowed to modify the source code in any way you want except you cannot modify the copyright details at the top of each module.
• If you want to distribute source code with your application, then you are only allowed to distribute versions released by the author. This is to maintain a single distribution point for the source code.

Updates

v1.29 (15 May 2022)

• Updated copyright details.
• Updated the code to use C++ uniform initialization for all variable declarations.

v1.28 (3 May 2020)

• Fixed various Clang-Tidy static code analysis warnings in the code.

v1.27 (28 March 2020)

• Updated copyright details.
• Fixed more Clang-Tidy static code analysis warnings in the code.

v1.26 (30 December 2019)

• Fixed various Clang-Tidy static code analysis warnings in the code.

v1.25 (18 November 2019)

• Updated initialization of various structs to use C++ 11 list initialization

v1.24 (5 June 2019)

• Updated copyright details.
• Updated the code to clean compile on VC 2019

v1.23 (31 December 2018)

• Updated copyright details.
• Fixed a number of C++ core guidelines compiler warnings. These changes mean that the code will now only compile on VC 2017 or later.

v1.22 (27 December 2016)

• Updated copyright details.
• Updated the sample apps main icon
• Replaced all occurrences of NULL with nullptr throughout the codebase
• Updated the code to clean compile on VC 2010 to VC 2015. The code now requires VC 2010 at a minimum.

v1.21 (27 August 2001)

• Fixed an access violation which was occuring in PreSubclassWindow on Windows 98.

v1.2 (8 March 2001)

• Updated copyright information 
• Updated the pushpin frame and pushpin classes to behave exactly like their counterparts in MS Developer Studio. Thanks to Abdulah DEDIC for doing all the hard work.

v1.14 (14 May 2000)

• Button now sends WM_COMMAND messages to the parent as a standard button does.

v1.13 (12 January 2000)

• Fixed minor typo on the resource dialog.

v1.12 (2 June 1999)

• Added a number of comments to improve code readability.
• Changed the resource id of the button bitmaps to more meaningful values. 
• Class no longer uses message reflection to catch changes in the clicked state. This means that parent classes can now catch the clicked notification.
• Code now uses mouse capturing which means that the button appears pressed if you click and hold the left mouse button over the push pin. This gives the pushpin class this standard button behavior.

v1.11 (22 February 1999)

• A number of small code updates.
• Code now compiles cleanly at warning level 4.
• Code is now UNICODE enabled and build configurations are provided.

v1.0 (7 December 1997)

• Minor code changes to fix a small redraw bug.

v1.01 (26 November 1997)

• Minor code changes to facilitate new CPushPinFrame module.

v1.1 (20 November 1997)

• Support non default color schemes.
• Supports dynamic changes to color schemes.
• Complete restructuring of code.
• Can now use an edged bitmap if you want to.
• Dropped support for Win16.
• Redid the example program.
• Simplified external usage of class.