Re: Making the clientarea of a Dialog black

From:
"Mark Salsbery [MVP]" <MarkSalsbery[MVP]@newsgroup.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:04:52 -0700
Message-ID:
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Wouldn't this be a slightly better solution?


Indeed :)

I just yanked code from a dialog with a hand-rendered, multi-color
background.
I never thought about WM_CTLCOLORDLG.

Thanks AliR!
Mark

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Microsoft MVP - Visual C++

"AliR (VC++ MVP)" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
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Wouldn't this be a slightly better solution?

HBRUSH CMyDialog::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor)
{
  HBRUSH hBrush = CDialog::OnCtlColor(pDC, pWnd, nCtlColor);

  switch (nCtlColor)
  {
     case CTLCOLOR_DLG: hBrush = (HBRUSH)::GetStockObject (WHITE_BRUSH);
                                          break;
  }
  return (hBrush);
}

AliR.

"Mark Salsbery [MVP]" <MarkSalsbery[MVP]@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in
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You could add a handler for WM_ERASEBKGND to your dialog class and draw
the background yourself, something like

BOOL CMyDialog::OnEraseBkgnd(CDC* pDC)
{
  CRect rect;
  GetClientRect(&rect);

  pDC->FillSolidRect(&rect, RGB(0x00, 0x00, 0x00));

  return TRUE;
}

Mark

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Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++

"RAN" <nijenhuis@wish.nl> wrote in message
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Hi,

How do i give the clientarea of my dialog a different color than grey ?

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