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LoadSkin() + text color of check box

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Topic: LoadSkin() + text color of check box

Posted By: znakeeye
Subject: LoadSkin() + text color of check box
Date Posted: 20 January 2008 at 10:18am

If I enable skinning via LoadSkin(), it seems impossible to change the text color of a check box in OnCtlColor().

How do I enforce a specific text color on my check box, preserving the skinned style for the actual check box?

As soon as I disable the call to LoadSkin(), the color is successfully set. This is driving me nuts!

Thanks!

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 21 January 2008 at 2:21am

Hi,

Do you use CDialog derived dialog ?

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 21 January 2008 at 3:05am

No, CWnd-derived (code is based on CXTPColorSelectorCtrl) with a CButton in it. I also tried making it transparent, which turned out to be extremely hard.

All I want is the check box to be transparent, and its text white. I handle WM_CTLCOLOR and call SetTextColor(white), SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT). It works when XP Theme/XTP Skinning is disabled, otherwise the entire control becomes black.

I also tried calling SetWindowTheme(m_btnCheck.m_hWnd, L"", L""), but that didn't help.

I'm getting desperate :)

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 23 January 2008 at 1:43pm

Hi,

I need sample project. too odd now. Send it to support@codejock.com

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 24 January 2008 at 5:56pm

Just in case anybody wonders how to accomplish this; here's the final solution:

After creating the check box:

XTPSkinManager().Remove(m_checkBox.m_hWnd);

Then in OnCtlColor:

if (pWnd->GetDlgCtrlID() == IDC_CHECKBOX)
{
    pDC->SetTextColor(RGB(255, 0, 0));
    pDC->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT);
    return (HBRUSH)m_patternBrush;
}

Where m_patternBrush is the pattern brush of the parent window from the window coordinates of the check box.