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Dialog Boxes

Started by omega_001 Dec 3, 2002 at 3:46 AM 2 replies 300+ views

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Dec 3, 2002 at 3:46 AM

Does anyone know if the background colour of a dialog box (in VC++ 6)can be changed? And if so how e.g. in the source code or resource editor? Thanks in advance, Kiel

cippyboy

Dec 3, 2002 at 6:09 AM

You can... fake it ?
Make HPEN and a HBRUSH,choose the right RGB,make curent and draw a rectangle either from 0,0 to lenght,width or -5,-5,length+5,width+5
Any other way : try to do something like a normal window
window.hbrBackground=(HBRUSH) GetSomeColor();//

variant

Dec 3, 2002 at 1:41 PM

In your dialog proc function, process the WM_CTLCOLORDLG message by simply returning an HBRUSH:

case WM_CTLCOLORDLG:
return (int)CreateSolidBrush(0x00bbggrr);

Be warned that the background will be changed but if you use static labels, the background of those won''t be changed. Maybe you need to make them transparent or something...

variant

Dec 3, 2002 at 1:53 PM

I tested out a couple more ideas, and if you are using static labels, process the WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC like this:

case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC:
SetBkColor((HDC)wParam,0x00bbggrr);
return (int)CreateSolidBrush(0x00bbggrr);

That will give them a completely colored background.

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