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VC++ Dialogs Question

Started by agent666 May 11, 2004 at 9:41 AM 4 replies 850+ views

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May 11, 2004 at 9:41 AM

Hi, i''m using a dialog to create an interface, but i need to know how to do three things: 1. Set the background color of the dialog and any controls on this dialog to what color i want 2. Set the forecolor of the dialog and any controls on this dialog to what color i want. 3. Set the Dialogs Icon and set the icon that will be displayed on the exe in windows explorer I''v looked over the net and can''t find anything :/

SpreeTree

May 11, 2004 at 9:52 AM

Have you looked at www.codeproject.com

Spree

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agent666

May 11, 2004 at 11:35 AM

Sorry i can''t find any tutorials about setting control background colors, all they have is MFC stuff. I need WINAPI.

kuphryn

May 11, 2004 at 12:48 PM

Check out the WM_ERASEBKGND message.

Kuphryn

Colin Jeanne

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Colin Jeanne

May 11, 2004 at 8:37 PM

Winprog

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Endurion

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Endurion

May 12, 2004 at 2:13 AM

1) Handle WM_ERASEBKGND and fillrect the background in the color you want.

2) A dialog doesn''t have a forecolor. For controls with different colors, look into NM_CUSTOMDRAW, WM_CTLCOLOR or better forget it. In most cases it won''t work fine, usually it''s only feasible with buttons and listboxes/ctrls. Edit''s are a bitch to recolor. If it''s a more complicated control it''s easier to make a complete custom control.

3) WM_SETICON for the dialog/window, for the explorer the icon with the lowest id in the ressource will be chosen.

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