Ok..Tabbed dialogs...XP style

Ok... I manage to create tabbed dialogs...

But...when I use the XP style...the dialogs keep its background color (COLOR_BTNFACE) making the TAB XP styled control horrible...

is there anyway to making the dialogs like transparents...or some alternative in XP style?

If you're using a DIALOGEX resource definition for your dialog resource then include the EXSTYLE option and set it to WS_EX_TRANSPARENT. Alternatively, just handle the WM_ERASEBKGND message for the dialog in question and return TRUE. Another possibility is to SetWindowLongPtr(GWL_EXSTYLE) the extended style to include the WS_EX_TRANSPARENT bit during the dialog's WM_INITDIALOG handler but this may require a call to SetWindowPos to effect the change.

using WM_ERASEBKGND was easy enough.... thanks Ken :)

Hi, me again:

My tab is working propertly, but seems that controls like STATIC and Radio buttons seems to keeps the COLOR_BTNFACE color in XP style.. but WM_CTLCOLORBTN doesn't work:

Code:

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case WM_CTLCOLORBTN:
                {
                        if (HWND(lParam) == GetDlgItem(hDlg, IDC_RADIO1))
                        {
                                SetBkColor((HDC)wParam,TRANSPARENT);
                                return HRESULT(GetStockObject(NULL_BRUSH));
                        }
                        return 1;
                }

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Any ideas

WM_CTLCOLORBTN is next to useless. For static controls and radio buttons, handle the parent's WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC message instead.

If you're having to do this just to get winxp visual styles then perhaps you need to look again at your xp manifest, if you are using one to get winxp styles, that is.

I'll read up more, thanks :)