Change group title text font and color

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   Does Task Panel work like Windows XP "Windows Security Center" app from MS.  In the main area, you see "Firewall", "Automatic Updates", and "Virus Protection" that you can put controls on the group panel title.

I don''t find a place you can set the font of Group Title text and color. And say, adding another line of text with a different font dynamically on the title.

Please let me know if Xtreme Task Panel can do it, and how. 

Thanks,

Nowlex

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nowlex Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02 April 2009 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote nowlex Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Change group title text font and color Posted: 02 April 2009 at 3:47pm
	Does Task Panel work like Windows XP "Windows Security Center" app from MS. In the main area, you see "Firewall", "Automatic Updates", and "Virus Protection" that you can put controls on the group panel title. I don''t find a place you can set the font of Group Title text and color. And say, adding another line of text with a different font dynamically on the title. Please let me know if Xtreme Task Panel can do it, and how. Thanks, Nowlex

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: 886	Post Options Post Reply Quote rdhd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 April 2009 at 3:00pm
	We subclassed the task panel and in our constructor we set a custom theme. Our custom theme is subclassed from CXTPTaskPanelExplorerThemePlain. Then we override and implement DrawGroupCaption, DrawCaptionGripper and other methods so we can draw our own colors and use our own font. The base class does have a protected CFont member (m_fntCaption). So if you only want to change the font, you should be able to load your font directly into the CFont object. There are member colors (protected) for groups but I don't see a member color for the text. However when our them draws, we call GetXtremeColor(COLOR_GRAYTEXT). The color can be set using CXTPColorManager::SetColor(COLOR_GRAYTEXT, RGB(myR,myG,myB). However that will affect any text drawing that uses COLOR_GRAYTEXT. You could override the draw routine we did and simply set your font, your color and then call the base class to draw. Then reset the color to the original color so only your task panel text draws with your color.