Coloring of edit box and button

[AbhilashFrancis]

Is there any methods to color the Edit field and Button in VC++.

[kishk91]

Hi..
check the WM_CTLCOLOR message..

Good luck
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[Sergio Villalba]

You can change the color of an edit, but can't change the color of a button.

To change the color of an edit:

1. Define a CBrush var in your Dialog class definition.

class CYourDlg : public Dialog
{
...
protected:
CBrush m_brush;
...
};




2. Initialize the brush in the OnInitDialog method:

BOOL CYourDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
....
m_brush.CreateSolidBrush(RGB(255,255,250)); // Light Yellow
...
}




3. Finally do this on the ID_CTLCOLOR handle, in the method WM_CTLCOLOR of your dialog:

HBRUSH CYourDlg::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, nCtlColor);
{
...
switch(nCtlColor)
{
case CTLCOLOR_EDIT:
pDC->SetTextColor(RGB(0,0,255)); // If you want to change the text color
pDC->SetBkColor(RGB(0,255,0)); // If you want to change the background color
return m_brush; // If you want to change the edit's background color
....
}






It's not possible to change the color of a button, but you can use any ActiveX to do that, or you can look for a control in codeguru.

Good luck, and sorry for my english!

[maxcode]

you should check out the example at maxcode.com
go here:
sourcecodes
vcpp
controls
and there it is!
it's with insource comment!

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