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Winapi background color

stranger4u · 2002-08-29T23:28:57

How do I make the background of my window greyish? Like how dialog boxes look like? When I feel in the WNDCLASS background variable I know that I can use brushes that I can get with GetStockObject but they are black or white or whatever.. And then there are COLOR_WINDOW and so &#111n but that''s not helping. I''d like to have either the dialog grey default color or a custom color. I tried to use CreateSolidBrush to get a custm color background but it didn''t work. Then I thought about painting the whole window in a color &#111n every WM_PAINT but wouldn''t that paint over all my controls so you would &#111nly see the color? This question must be really stupid, but I can''t figure it out myself.

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Started by stranger4u August 29, 2002 02:46 PM

15 comments, last by stranger4u 21 years, 7 months ago

stranger4u

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August 29, 2002 04:07 PM

yep i''m doing

HWND blah =

just didn''t post it because i thought it wasn''t important.. and updatewindow doesn''t help either :-(

TDragon

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August 29, 2002 04:10 PM

Darn. I''ve never had that problem before, at all. All I can suggest is what I suggested before: experiment around with putting your code in a different function, with calling it at different times, or from different locations in the program.

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xDS4Lx

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August 29, 2002 04:18 PM

Try using this:

  wndClass.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)COLOR_WINDOW;

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Coincoin

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August 29, 2002 04:37 PM

Update the parent BEFORE the children.
That is, call UpdateWindow(hwndParent);
And then call UpdateWindow(GetDlgItem(hwndParent,1));

Or, use WS_CLIPCHILDREN window style on the parent.

EDIT : Got it clearer.

[edited by - Coincoin on August 29, 2002 5:43:41 PM]

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stranger4u

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August 29, 2002 04:42 PM

quote:Original post by Coincoin
Call UpdateWindow(CHILD); AFTER UpdateWindow(PARENT);

Or, use WS_CLIPCHILDREN on the parent.

WS_CLIPCHILDREN helped, thanks.

Tornado

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August 29, 2002 06:01 PM

quote:Original post by xDS4Lx
Try using this:

    wndClass.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)COLOR_WINDOW;

Shouldn''t it be:
wndClass.hbrBackground = GetSysColorBrush(COLOR_WINDOW);
?

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xDS4Lx

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August 29, 2002 11:28 PM

Try it out! It works perfectly that way.

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