Disable visual style for a single CButton - mfc

Question

If I create normal CButtons they look like this:
I accidentally created some older looking buttons when I did the following:
class CClickButton : public CButton
{
afx_msg int OnCreate (LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs);
DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CClickButton);
DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP();
};
IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CClickButton, CButton);
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CClickButton, CButton)
ON_WM_CREATE()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
int CClickButton::OnCreate (LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs)
{
return 0;
}
Now I would like to create buttons in this style. (Because I want to add a bitmap. And only when using this style, they give a visual feedback of getting 'pushed down'. The new style just tints the background blue and this is hidden by the bitmap on top of the button. An alternative question would be, if there is an easy way to also tint the image when the button gets pressed.)
What is the proper way to tell MFC to create those kind of buttons? Just omitting the the OnCreate message to the base class feels wrong to me. And I am not sure if that leads to other side effects I am not aware of yet.
I found some information on how to change the visual style for a whole program. But I only want to change it for some selected buttons.

Answer 1

Visual styles can be enabled and disabled on a per-window basis. The MSDN provides information on how to Turn Off Visual Styles:
You can turn off visual styles for a control or for all controls in a window by calling the SetWindowTheme function as follows:
SetWindowTheme(hwnd, L" ", L" ");
To implement this in your MFC CButton-derived class, put the code in your OnCreate-handler:
int CClickButton::OnCreate( LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs ) {
::SetWindowTheme( m_hWnd, L" ", L" " );
return CButton::OnCreate( lpcs );
}
If you are using a dialog resource to build your GUI and attach your CClickButton to an existing standard button control using the DDX_Control function after the dialog (and its controls) have been created, your OnCreate-handler will not get called. For this specific scenario you will have to turn off visual styles at a later point. An ideal candidate is overriding the virtual PreSubclassWindow method:
void CClickButton::PreSubclassWindow() {
::SetWindowTheme( m_hWnd, L" ", L" " );
CButton::PreSubclassWindow();
}