How to change the color of a CStatic

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   Dear Support:
I have a program which is based on the CXTResizeDialog, I met two questions:

(1) There is a CStatic in this dialog, In default, the font color is black, when something is wrong, it's color will change to red, is there any such class in the xtreme toolkitpro?

(2) Can I make the resize gripper in the bottom right corner visible?

Thank you.

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ocoralan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 14 November 2007 Status: Offline Points: 35	Post Options Post Reply Quote ocoralan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to change the color of a CStatic Posted: 15 November 2007 at 10:06am
	Dear Support: I have a program which is based on the CXTResizeDialog, I met two questions: (1) There is a CStatic in this dialog, In default, the font color is black, when something is wrong, it's color will change to red, is there any such class in the xtreme toolkitpro? (2) Can I make the resize gripper in the bottom right corner visible? Thank you.

Ashok Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 02 May 2007 Status: Offline Points: 164	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ashok Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 November 2007 at 8:16am
	Hi, I am not sure whether this solution is suits you. But this is solution for changing the color of the Static. override OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor) HBRUSH CDialog::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor) { if (nCtlColor == CTLCOLOR_STATIC) return CDialog::OnCtlColor(pDC, pWnd, nCtlColor); COLORREF clr = RGB(0,0,0); -- type the color u want static CBrush brush; static COLORREF brushColor = 0; if (brush.GetSafeHandle() == 0 \|\| brushColor != clr) { brush.DeleteObject(); brush.CreateSolidBrush(clr); brushColor = clr; } pDC->SetTextColor(clr); return brush; }

ocoralan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 14 November 2007 Status: Offline Points: 35	Post Options Post Reply Quote ocoralan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 November 2007 at 10:46am
	Thank you for your help. But I donn't think this method suits for me, because there are other CStatic controls in my dialog. My requirement is following: When the customers enter the wrong password, the font color of the specified CStatic will be changed to red. to Support: Are there any such class which is derived from CStatic in the XTreme ToolkitPro?

jimmy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 11 November 2003 Location: Austria Status: Offline Points: 516	Post Options Post Reply Quote jimmy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 November 2007 at 4:51am
	Create your own class CTransparentStatic : public CStatic. And this class handle OnCtlColor itself. Or your create a complete owndraw CStatic with Transparent flag. See www.codeproject.com, there are some sample. Jimmy

rdhd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 13 August 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 954	Post Options Post Reply Quote rdhd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 November 2007 at 1:33pm
	A static doesn' t have to use the fixed ID assigned by the resource editor. Open your resource file and select the control on the dialog and invoke the properties command. Give the static control its own ID. Then in OnCtlColor simply take the input CWnd and call GetDlgCtrlID(). Look for the ID you gave it and when your static comes thru color it appropriately.