Re: Background color on a tab page with XP theme

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:27:44 -0700
Message-ID:
<98B65E72-D91A-4AAF-A9C6-188C69B4DE9E@microsoft.com>
Point of interest. The new MFC Feature Pack contains a pretty cool property
sheet class that could be used if you want a Visual Studio looking property
sheet:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb982137.aspx

I didn't see any pictures of it on the MSDN site, but it looks like this
one:

http://www.bcgsoft.com/featuretour/tour103.htm

Tom

"Somebody" <somebody@cox.net> wrote in message
news:Tbj7k.2111$Fj5.1472@newsfe23.lga...

Why don't you use a property sheet? This is exactly what they are for, and
then you wouldn't have to mess around with all of this.

P.S. there is a bug in the tab control / property sheets where the pages
sometimes don't paint in themed mode correctly. The work around for that
issue is:

Try it on an XP box, if it comes out correctly, you are good.

If not, create a hidden static control on the page, and it should now
paint correctly.

"Timothy Dean" <my_email@this.com> wrote in message
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I have a dialog with a tab control on it. Tab pages are created from
dialog resources. When the tab control displays, the tabs are "white" and
the background of the tab pages is the COLOR_BTNFACE color. When I call
EnableThemeDialogTexture for the dialog page object, now the background of
the dialog appears to be "white" while the tab page has a white gradient
getting darker toward the bottom. This leaves an outline around where my
dialog resource is being displayed. How do I get the gradient to come out
right? Do I need to call DrawThemeBackground on the page? Thanks.

Timothy Dean

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