MFC: Change the color of static text with button press?

I've got some text that I want to change from red to green when the user pushes a button. Currently, I'm coloring the text like so:

// in OnInitDialog:

Code:

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        m_brush.CreateSolidBrush(RGB(50, 50, 50));

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Code:

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HBRUSH CCineFrameDlg::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor)
{
  HBRUSH hbr = CDialog::OnCtlColor(pDC, pWnd, nCtlColor);

  if (pWnd->GetDlgCtrlID() == 0x200 ||
      pWnd->GetDlgCtrlID() == IDC_STATIC_COLOR)
    {
      pDC->SetTextColor(RGB(200,0,0));
      pDC->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT);
      hbr = m_brush;
    }

  return hbr;
}

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Two questions -
1. how go I make it change with the button press?
2. How do I get it to actually look transparent (as opposed to the attached with the dark background behind the text)? Is there a way to get the background color of the window & set the brush to the color as a default?

OnCtlColor() is called right before a control is to be drawn.
The returned brush will be used to draw the control's background.
Use pDC to set the foreground and background text color and background mode.

1. Store the text color as a member variable and change it on a button press.
2. Don't return your own brush, return what CDialog::OnCtlColor() returns.

gg

Got it working - thanks!

The only thing I'll add for anyone else that attempts this, is that you need to do the Invalidate(); UpdateWindow(); after you change the color in the buttonclick() function.

;)