How to change the color of a button background

[paulina_lui]

I am using a Class CxTargetButton for the buttons in my Dialog,
Now even afetr tryuing to use Message reflection, the background color of the buttons is not changing.

I can see the following method being called
HBRUSH CxTargetButton::CtlColor(CDC* p_DC, UINT nCtl)
{
p_DC->SetBkColor(RGB(255,255,255));
p_DC->SetTextColor(RGB(255,0,0));
return (HBRUSH)m_Brush;

}

But the background color is not changed to white as I want it to.


The method DrawItem has been overridden in the class, can that be causing this issue...

Pauli

[paulina_lui]

And I have tried the same for them but still nothing, they have the same grey background.


I am changing the background color of the Dialog in the dialogs CTLColor handler, and for rest of the controlls using CTLCOLOR reflection am trying to use CtlColor to change the color

[kochhar]

For styled buttons of all types, I highly recommend using the
CButtonST class by Davide Calabro, at:

http://www.codeproject.com/buttonctrl/cbuttonst.asp

[souldog]

Can I ask what is CxTargetButton?
Anyway, depending on what this class does, you could just derive
from this class and handle DrawItem. Change the backgound color and then call the bass class implementation of DrawItem.
Again this depends on what this button class is.

[infrared]

if you are using manifest (win XP style) the reflection functions won't change a thing.

i don't know why... i asked this question a half a year ago...
no one told me how to solve this... except one who told me about API functions...
i tried to change the color of CheckBox when i click on it.

See my thread...