TextColor in Command Button

[blastingblast]

Can anyone tell me an easy way to set the text color of a button (forecolor) to any other color. Eg. red.

I followed a similar procedure as for that of an edit control.But it does not work. Here is the code.

int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hThisInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,LPSTR lpszArgument,int nFunsterStil)
{
HWND hwnd = CreateWindowEx ( //form options ); //Callback set to WindowProcedure
HWND hwnd2=CreateWindowEx(0,"BUTTON,""button1",WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE ,10,10,60,30,hwnd,NULL,hThisInstance,NULL);
}

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
switch (message)
{
case WM_DESTROY:
PostQuitMessage (0);
break;

case WM_CTLCOLORBTN: /*it is WM_CTLCOLOREDIT for an edit control. I am creating a button so i changed it to WM_CTLCOLORBTN*/
SetTextColor((HDC)wParam,RGB(254,0,0));
break;

default:
return DefWindowProc (hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
}

return 0;
}

[zerver]

I'm afraid WM_CTLCOLOR handling in the dialog cannot change the color of buttons.

Try this:
http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/controls...icle.php/c5169

[blastingblast]

I checked the link out and it seems the example uses dialogs. In my code i use APIs to create the windows. I need to change the forecolor and backcolor of the command button which is made by createwindow api.Any ideas?

[sunil_cguru]

as per msdn documentation "The WM_CTLCOLORBTN message is sent to the parent window of a button before drawing the button. The parent window can change the button's text and background colors. However, only owner-drawn buttons respond to the parent window processing this message."
So your only option is to go for an owner drawn button

[blastingblast]

What exactly is an owner drawn button? Can it be implemented with createwindow api in a form also created by createwindow api? Could you please show me an example of how to create it and change the text color.

[sunil_cguru]

An owner draw button is a cutom button whose drawing is handled in the code at run time. You can do this by setting the BS_OWNERDRAW flag in your button's CreateWindowEx. Also you need to handle the WM_DRAWITEM for this button and basically draw the text and background color inside this handler. This will help you customize the button in any whichever way you want.

[souldog]

Buttons with any one of the button styles BS_PUSHBUTTON, BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON, or BS_PUSHLIKE do not use the brush returned from
handling a WM_CTLCOLORBTN message. I read somewhere that this "feature" goes back to the early days of windows.

So you are going to have to handle the drawing of the button yourself

Include BS_OWNERDRAW as one of the window styles for your button set in the dwStyle field of the CreateWindow function.

You would then handle drawing the button from WM_DRAWITEM. Below is an example
for an MFC button, but you should be able to change it for Win32 calls

void MASKED_BITMAP_BUTTON::DrawItem(LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT lpDrawItemStruct) 
{
	CDC* dc = CDC::FromHandle(lpDrawItemStruct->hDC);
	CRect rect(lpDrawItemStruct->rcItem);
	dc->SaveDC();
	
	rect.DeflateRect(0,0,0,2);
	IsLite_ ? dc->FillSolidRect(&rect, LightColor_) : dc->FillSolidRect(&rect, ::GetSysColor(COLOR_BTNFACE));
	
	if(UseText_)
	{
		if(TextFont_.GetSafeHandle())
			dc->SelectObject(TextFont_);
		
		dc->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT);
		dc->SetTextColor(RGB(0,0,0));
		dc->DrawText(Text_.c_str(), &rect, DT_SINGLELINE | DT_VCENTER | DT_CENTER);
	}

	
	if(TheBitmap_.GetSafeHandle())
	{
		if(Stretch_)
			TheBitmap_.DrawTransparentStretch(dc, rect, TransparentColor_);
		else			
			TheBitmap_.DrawTransparent(dc, rect.left + LeftSideOffset_, rect.top + TopSideOffset_, TransparentColor_);
	}

	rect.InflateRect(0,0,0,2);
	dc->DrawEdge(&rect, ((lpDrawItemStruct->itemState & ODS_SELECTED) ? EDGE_SUNKEN : EDGE_RAISED), BF_RECT);

	dc->RestoreDC(-1);
}

[fred100]

What exactly is an owner drawn button?

Why don't you read MSDN ?
There are plenty of complete (C-Win32 api) samples for Owner-Drawn buttons (KB, PSDK, etc)

[blastingblast]

Thanks,I finally understood it.Managed to use souldog's code after converting.Thanks Guys.