How to change the Background Color of a Date Time Picker Control?

Hi,
How can I change the Background Color of a Date Time Picker Control?
:)

Hi,

Take a look at http://www.codeguru.com/controls/dat..._picker3.shtml . Is this what you are looking for ?

[b]Let me know if that helped.
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V.Girish

No,
I don't want to change the background color of the droped down control.
Thanx anyway.
:)

override the: (WM_CTLCONTROL)

HBRUSH CDateTimePicker::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor)
{
//change the color
}

Hi,
I think the message you mean is the WM_CTLCOLOR. I could not find any WM_CTLCONTROL message.
Anyway I can't test it right now (I will in 8 hours) but the documentation doesn’t mention anything about DateTimePicker control, are you sure that this will work?

Yes, you are right, it is WM_CTLCOLOR. I was mistaken, because I was in hurry.
What about my hint, it sholud work because I used this overridable several times within CDialog, it worked. Since DateTimePicker is an object of CDateTimeCtrl class which is derived from CWnd as CDialog, HBRUSH CDlgDlg::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor) should work. The only thing you gotta do is to create a new class derived from CDateTimeCtrl and manually override HBRUSH CDlgDlg::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor).

Let me know if it works.
Bayram.

Unfortunately it does not work. The control does not send any WM_CTLCOLOR message. I've tried MFC or plain Win32 API but the result is the same. I guess there is no way to change the background color this way.
Any ideas?

I've just saw another post with the same issue and they say that the answer is caching the WM_ERASEBKGND message. I don't know if this is true (I will test it in about 7 hours) but I can't believe it was that simple and I never think of it before.
I will let you know.
:)

Hi there, how are you going on with the DateTimePicker? Have you got any result?
After some struggle I have had some result. As you know DTP has two windows: first is main which looks like CEdit ctrl and another one is MonthCalendar. I dealt with the first. I want to send you the project (zip), but I do not know your e-mail address.
Reply.
Regard!
Brm.

No need to send me anything, it works with WM_ERASEBKGND. I can't believe it was that simple and I did't think of it before.
Thanx for your time. Bye!

Hello

I have read all the thread , my task is similar to change the color of Dropdown of timepicker in MFC.By Erasebackground i got achieved to color the background of the dropdown control, how to change the color of text,

Anybody have any ideas


thanks in advance