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[GD-Windows] dialogbox color

[Andrew <an...@aw...>]

hi,

VC6 doesn't seem to have built in ability to change the color of a dialog
box..
Does anyone know of a way?  perhaps something to be added in the script.rc
file,
or even a sendmessage() command?

thanks
Andrew

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Re: [GD-Windows] dialogbox color

[<bwa...@bt...>]

You wrote:

>hi,
>
>VC6 doesn't seem to have built in ability to change the color of a =
dialog
>box..
>Does anyone know of a way?  perhaps something to be added in the =
script.rc
>file,
>or even a sendmessage() command?

You want to handle the WM_CTLCOLOR* messages. This allows your dialog
process to adjust the colours used within various parts of the dialogbox.=
=20

IE
WM_CTLCOLORBTN
WM_CTLCOLORDLG
WM_CTLCOLOREDIT
WM_CTLCOLORLISTBOX
WM_CTLCOLORMSGBOX
WM_CTLCOLORSCROLLBAR
WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC

To handle the dialogbox background you need to handle the WM_CTLCOLORDLG
message.=20

HTH

Benedict
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Reality is Insanity

Re: [GD-Windows] dialogbox color

[Corrinne Y. <cor...@sp...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Benedict Walmisley" <bwa...@bt...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] dialogbox color


You want to handle the WM_CTLCOLOR* messages. This allows your dialog
process to adjust the colours used within various parts of the dialogbox.

IE
WM_CTLCOLORBTN
WM_CTLCOLORDLG
WM_CTLCOLOREDIT
WM_CTLCOLORLISTBOX
WM_CTLCOLORMSGBOX
WM_CTLCOLORSCROLLBAR
WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC

To handle the dialogbox background you need to handle the WM_CTLCOLORDLG
message.

HTH

Benedict

-- Yup.
-- If you change the background colors, you may want to specify your
foreground and text colors as well, even if it looks legible on your system
without setting them.
-- Since the user can customize to a different scheme, you can't assume
their choice of foreground and text colors would be "typical" or "readable"
with your choice of background.

-- Better to set the entire scheme than just the colors you have in mind
(that goes with the "normal" or "default" text and foreground.)