Re: how to make dialog's background color

From:
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 9 Aug 2007 06:21:21 -0700
Message-ID:
<pxEui.2973$IE5.1002@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net>
"chat" <chat.watchara@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1186656604.957612.215840@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com...

Hi,all
I am new to visual c++. I create empty dialog like this

class CMyWindow : public CFrameWnd
{
public:
CMyWindow ();
};

class CMyWinApp : public CWinApp
{
public:
virtual BOOL InitInstance();
};

CMyWinApp MyApplication;

BOOL CMyWinApp::InitInstance()
{
m_pMainWnd = new CMyWindow ;
m_pMainWnd->ShowWindow(m_nCmdShow);
m_pMainWnd->UpdateWindow();
return TRUE;
}

CMyWindow ::CMyWindow ()
{
Create(NULL, "test",WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,CRect(0,0,500,340));
}

I want my dialog appear with dark background that is all area except
my dialog is dark. How to do?
thank you in advance,


The background color is specified in the window class. Replace the first
parameter (NULL) with a call to AfxRegisterWndClass, then you can specify a
backgroudn brush. Alternatively, CMyWindow can handle WM_ERASEBKGND and
paint the entire rect whatever color you want, e.g. with FillSolidRect().

-- David

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