Re: How to change a color of a group of controls

From:

"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.it>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:02:26 +0100

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"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:bc1ni31aorjqbt5h70t4tq9lb550hav9v1@4ax.com...

It is actually trivial,

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To set this up you might do something like

void CMyDIalog::HighlightControls(CButton & groupbox, BOOL active)
  {
   CRect r;
   groupbox.GetWindowRect(&r);
   ScreenToClient(&r);
   for(CWnd * wnd = GetWindow(GW_CHILD); wnd != NULL; wnd =
wnd->GetWindow(GW_HWNDNEXT))
      { /* scan windows */
       CRect w;
       wnd->GetWindowRect(&w);
       ScreenToClient(&w);
       if(r.PtInRect(w.left, w.top))
           wnd->SendMessage(UWM_SET_ACTIVE, (WPARAM)active);
    } /* scan windows */
  }

Joe: please compare your code with the following WinForm code:

<code>
  //
  // There are two buttons: button1 and button 2.
  // Handle buttons' Click event,
  // and change group-box color accordingly
  //

  private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
      groupBox1.BackColor = Color.AliceBlue;
  }

  private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
      groupBox1.BackColor = Color.DarkSeaGreen;
  }

</code>

Frankly speaking, I think that .NET WinForm code is *actually trivial* :)
....Don't you agree?

It's just a property set:

    groupBox.BackColor = <...the color...>;

I would very much like MFC to be upgraded to meet the level of programmer
friendliness and productivity of WinForm...
I belive it is very possible!

Giovanni

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