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  1. #1
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    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?



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    Re: How to 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 ?

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

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



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

    override the: (WM_CTLCONTROL)

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


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

    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?



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

    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.


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

    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?



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

    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.



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

    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.


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

    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!


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

    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

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