Re: How to change bk color of a dialog to match CTabCtrls' tab in XP?

Hi,

I'm making some mods to an app that was developed for W2K with VS2003. I
thought it would be a good time for the app to get the XP look when it runs
on the OS. Adding manifest seemed like a simple and quick way to do that.
Unfortunately I ran into unexpected problems with CTabCtrl. On W2K default
background colors for dialog boxes and tab controls were identical. This is
not the case on XP - tab controls' background color is much lighter. As a
result, tab control's content (i.e. embedded dialog with controls) has a
different background color than the rest of the tab control.

What would be the proper way to sync the dialog box's bg color with the tab
control that embeds it?

Is OnCtlColor() in the embedded box the way to go? If yes, how do I get the
background color of the tab control? GetSysColor() docs are not much of a
help in this case.