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steeld · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 9:17 am Post subject: Changing the colour of a button

I see that a STYLE might be applied to a button dialog element but the foreground and background colours are ignored? Is this supposed to work? Is there another way of changing the button colour from grey to, say, red for a stop button?

Thanks

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:52 am Post subject:

The button elements FOREGROUND and BACKGROUND colors are
determined and set thru your systems registry.

The only way I know to change the color of a button is to intercept the
WM_CTLCOLORBTN message. I'm not sure that that is possible with just
VDS alone. However, if I'm not mistaken, Mac's vdsug.dll or vdsapi.dll is
capable of doing this for you. Both dll's are freeware.

kOt · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject:

You could "instead" use images for buttons Very Happy

any colors you want

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I may be mistaken, but I believe CodeScript has provided an example to do
this (VDSGUI?)

vdsalchemist · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject:

The initial default colors for all elements are stored through the windows registry. It is up to the application if it wants to use those colors or not. The WM_CTLCOLORBTN message will not change the colors if you do not respond properly to the message. I don't think VDS, vdsug.dll, or vdsapi.dll has the ability to respond to the WM_CTLCOLORBTN.

CodeScript's VDSGUI.DLL is the only one I know for sure will work since it sub-classes the VDS elements and makes them owner drawn which means the DLL has the ability to change the colors on the fly. His DLL is very very Cool

and very easy to use. I would suggest everyone get a copy of it. Wink