Subclassing

WIll subclassing allow me to change the look of a control?

How do people create custom controls? I mean like, tab controls and sliders and things.

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WIll subclassing allow me to change the look of a control

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Yes, but it's more usual to make the control owner-drawn: give the control the appropriate owner draw style and then handle WM_DRAWITEM notification messages.

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I mean like, tab controls and sliders and things.

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These are common controls, although ms prefers to list them all together now with what used to be referred to as standard or user controls (buttons,edits,listboxes etc).

Thanks. :) I'll have a little play around and see what I can figure out.

Ok, I think I've figured it out. So when that message is sent windows would usually do some GDI functions to draw the control? And because it's ownerdrawn I can do it instead?

Yup.

Sweet... :D