Background on custom common controls?
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Topic: Background on custom common controls?
Posted By: Ark42
Subject: Background on custom common controls?
Date Posted: 14 June 2004 at 4:33pm
Does anybody have a good idea of how to get the blue gradient as the
background for common controls? See the CommonControls sample for what
I mean, but that sample only uses the office 2000 theme, probably for
this reason. I can override CMainFrame::OnCtlColor and return a new solid brush for the background color, which would let it work with the Office XP theme and blend in correctly, but I don't see any good way to put a gradient underneith the common controls. I have also tried deriving a class from CSliderCtrl and overriding OnPaint to use CXTMemDC, but the gradient from the toolbar still does not show through ever, I just end up with the hall-of-mirrors type effect. |
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Posted By: Kenneth
Date Posted: 26 June 2004 at 7:22pm
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I have done this type of thing with CDialogBar, where I want the background of the CDialogBar to reflect the current theme colors. The CSliderCtrl is a bit more difficult since it is drawn in stages (see http://www.codeproject.com/miscctrl/transparentslider.asp?print=true - http://www.codeproject.com/miscctrl/transparentslider.asp?pr int=true ). You would also have to call something like: XTPPaintManager()->GradientFill(pDC,rc,XTPPaintMana ger()->GetXtremeColor(XPCOLOR_BASE),XTPPaintManager()-> ;GetXtremeColor(55),FALSE); in order to get the proper gradient fill. I suspect this would be a bit tricky since you are only filling a portion of the CommandBar (the slider itself). |