Re: Colors for XP and Classic themes

From:

"Michael K. O'Neill" <MikeAThon2000@nospam.hotmail.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:11:47 -0700

Message-ID:

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"Frank S" <JazzedApps@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:%23Rmut40FIHA.4752@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

I use code like this:

::FillRect(pDC->m_hDC, &rectIcon, (HBRUSH) (COLOR_MENU+1));

to erase a static control to match the background of a dialog. This works

fine using the Windows

Classic theme.

When I change to Windows XP theme, the static control is erased with an

off white color, instead of

a light grey.

So I looked at some theme APIs and tried code like this:

HTHEME hTheme = NULL;
HWND hWnd = NULL;
BOOL bAppThemed = IsAppThemed();
if(bAppThemed)
{
hWnd = GetSafeHwnd();
hTheme = OpenThemeData(hWnd, L"Static");
}

but hTheme returned from OpenThemeData is always null. (I intended to try

using GetThemeSysColor.)

How can I solve this problem (erasing a static control to match the

background of a dialog)?

--
Regards,

Frank

In your original code, try using COLOR_3DFACE instead of COLOR_MENU.
COLOR_3DFACE is the "Face color for three-dimensional display elements and
for dialog box backgrounds", which sounds like what you want. COLOR_MENU is
the "Menu background", which doesn't sound correct given your objective of
the dialog's background. The fact that these two colors might have been the
same in the classic XP theme is completely coincidental.