Changing background Color of standard buttons (ok,cancel,help) of Cpropertysheet

[Sparsh_21j]

I have one Cpropertysheet which contains two Cproperty page.I am able to change the background color of page and sheet as well using onctlcolor() but i am not able to change background color of standard buttons (ok,cancel,help), i tried setfacecolor, dc.setbkcolor ,code is compiling successfully but nothing is reflecting the result.Please please provide the solution with a code snippet

[VictorN]

Did you try CMFCButton::SetFaceColor?

[Sparsh_21j]

Yes victor i tried setfacecolor ,code is compiling but result is not reflected..please help me out

[Arjay]

Please post the code you have to change the button color.

[Sparsh_21j]

Bool MyPropertysheet :: OnInitDialog()
{
    Bool bResult = Cpropertysheet :: OnInitDialog();

    CMFCBUTTON * but1 = (CMFCBUTTON *)GetDlgItem(IDOK);
    but1->MoveWindow(8,596,58,25) ;

    CMFCBUTTON * but2 = (CMFCBUTTON *)GetDlgItem(IDHELP);
    but2->MoveWindow(250,596,58,25) ;

    CMFCBUTTON * but3 = (CMFCBUTTON *)GetDlgItem(IDCANCEL);
    but3->MoveWindow(8,596,58,25) ;

    // Above code is successfully moving the buttons position 

    m_ok.SetFaceColor(RGB(255,102,0);

    /*m_ok has been declared of type CMFCBUTTON in header file of MyPropertysheet */

    return bResult ;
}
 
Void MyPropertysheet ::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX) 
{
    Cpropertysheet:: DoDataExchange(pDX)

    DDX_Control(pDX, IDOK, m_ok);
}

//DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX) declared in header file of MyPropertysheet

[VictorN]

What is CMFCBUTTON ?

[Arjay]

What is m_ok? Where is it set?

[Sparsh_21j]

m_ok has been there in DDX_Exchange() see..second last line of code.and m_ok has been declared in header file

[Sparsh_21j]

CMFCBUTTON is derived from CButton and provide setfacecolor() function to color background of button

[VictorN]

CMFCBUTTON is derived from CButton and provide setfacecolor() function to color background of button

Who created this CMFCBUTTON class?
How is this setfacecolor() function implemented?

[Arjay]

Back up a step and add your own button to a single page (i.e. a button that is not one of the CPropertySheet buttons).

Then use one if your methods to change the color of the button. Once you get that working, use the same approach for one of the property sheet buttons. Btw, m_ok may not be working for you - instead, from the page, you may have to use <pointer to the property sheet>::GetDlgItem().

[GCDEF]

CMFCBUTTON is derived from CButton and provide setfacecolor() function to color background of button

There's an MFC class CMFCButton. Is that what you're using or did you create your own CMFCBUTTON class?

[Sparsh_21j]

Yes you are right i am using MFC class provided by Microsoft

[VictorN]

Yes you are right i am using MFC class provided by Microsoft

Then it must be either CMFCButton or some class derived from CMFCButton. Is your class CMFCBUTTON derived from CMFCButton class?

[Sparsh_21j]

I tried that too by using create() method but unfortunately my button was not displayed on Sheet.. and can you please tell with line of code what you want to say above "you may have to use <pointer to the property sheet>::GetDlgItem()."