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Topic: How to change the color of a CStatic

Posted By: ocoralan
Subject: How to change the color of a CStatic
Date 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.

Replies:

Posted By: Ashok
Date 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;

}

Posted By: ocoralan
Date 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?

Posted By: jimmy
Date 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

Posted By: rdhd
Date 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.